Mimi Yin wrote:
*Engineering Area: *http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/EngineeringArea
+ *Open issue: How is what's on this page different from For
Developers? *- KATIE / TED / PHILIPPE?
- http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/ForDevelopers
What is different? Not much. The cosmo side pulled from the same sources
on both pages.
Here are my current thoughts...
- The purpose of the "engineering" wiki area is for developers: core
developers working on the project, developers who might contribute a
patch or two, developers who want to use the server for CalDAV testing,
developers who want to write desktop plugins, developers who want to
write applications that pull data from the server using Atom or some
other protocol, developers writing automated tests, etc.
- The "engineering area" home page is a starting point for any of these
people. It needs a brief description/overview of the server and destop,
and needs obvious links to this information:
* finding core developers (irc, mailing lists, etc.)
* getting source (and building, etc.)
* getting more technical info (architecture docs, protocol specs, etc.)
* logging bugs and getting involved with testing
* finding information about sub-components or projects
- We could also add a "hacking" link for each project -- info for
getting started coding that is aimed at someone new to the project. That
assumes that a "hacking" page includes useful information not redundant
to the above.
- We could have a "project dashboard" page for both server and desktop,
focused around release management: bug lists, links to tinderboxes,
links to planning pages for current release, etc.
- The open source license needs to be clearly identified
I don't think we need an exact equivalent of the original desktop "for
developers" page -- that was a short term solution for a particular release.
I think the main page for the twisted project is a good example of tone
and level of information: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/. (Most people
interested in twisted are developers).
Also, I wonder if "Engineering" is the wrong term -- perhaps we should
go with "Developer Area".
Cheers,
Katie
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