2010/6/27 Karsten Wade - kw...@redhat.com wrote: ><snip> > My concern is, we have a tight deadline to do > work before end of August. Is a toolset review and switch a good idea > right now? > > Is anyone interested in getting a tool review underway? I think I can > enumerate many MUST have attributes fairly well, to give us a place to > start from. > > - Karsten
That's the second time you've mentioned being schedule driven. It's my experience schedule must be balanced against quality. It is also recognized that without a schedule, perfect quality will be sought without any possible achievement. It's also been my experience that building data with a schedule-driven choice of data manipulation tools locks in that tool set rather permanently. Few people like to transcribe a large set of data they have spent precious time creating. I hope University level courses are still trying to instill the understanding that design should precede creation. In my paradigm, that includes a careful consideration of tools before they are used. All the above is my way of suggesting that maybe now is a better time to make a careful selection of our textbook creation tools rather than later, especially in light of the other discussion of how well 'Practical Open Source Software Exploration' 0.8 has been received, ( http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2010-June/001283.html ). If you are setting August as the date for 0.9, having no feedback on the use of 0.8, I suggest your schedule is ambitious. Whether you present 0.8 or 0.9 at OSCON, you will be presenting a Work In Progress. Of course, even 1.0 will be a WIP since the subject matter will evolve. In my opinion, a tool set review and switch is a very good idea at this stage of the project. NeoPhyte_Rep _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
