This might sound a little bit like Bugzilla or SourceForge, but I think it would serve a different purpose and have some different features...
For instance, what it one of the things it did was every week or two sent out an eMail to the person who said they were working on something and requested an update? If no response was recieved in 48 hours lets say, then the person loses their "assignment". That doesn't mean they can't still work on it, just that as far as the community knows, no one is actively working on that project.
Such a site would serve as something of a central clearing house for the various wish list items people have. A person could go there and see what people want, what is being worked on, what the current status is, etc. This would minimize duplication of effort, and would also help two people interested in the same thing get together and help each other.
I don't propose that this would be anything officially sanctioned, certainly not initially, nor would it be anything other than kind of a meeting place and status database (i.e., I'm not talking about storing code or posting releases like SF or anything).
It just seems to me that we all have our own wish lists, and some of us are willing to put in some effort to implement some of the ideas. Wouldn't we all help ourselves and each other by introducing some minor level of organization to such efforts? We certainly can't all know what each other is doing all the time, so isn't anything that facilitates communication a Good Thing(tm)?
I would be more than willing to put such a site together, and I'd even be willing to host it (assuming it didn't prove to be a financial burden). But I'd like to know if I'm the only one that thinks it might be a good idea or not first. :)
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
Ted Husted wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:56:02 -0800, Dakota Jack wrote:
Hope this is helpful. If not, please understand it was meant to be helpful.
Wish lists like this are mildly interesting, but what's helpful is when people give back to the community by creating new extensions.
A Struts Upload extension would probably be interesting to a lot of people. But someone who uses one must be the one to create it. Just like when Steve created ssl-ext, and Hubert created FormDef, and Frank created WS, and Don created Scripting, and once upon a time, when David created Validator and Cedric created Tiles.
All of us are writing applications. The difference is that a few kind souls package their stuff to share with others.
-Ted.
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