What you describe is pretty much what the Wiki is for (http://wiki.apache.org/struts). There are no limitations on who can post to it (other than having to have a valid login), and nothing that is on topic - i.e. generally related to the development of Struts - is likely to be frowned on.
Of course, that won't work any better than mailing lists do until people start writing code instead of writing words. If you want to see some feature constructed, make it so, by doing it! (Among other reasons, this is why you see me focusing more on code than on the mailing lists, for example.) If nobody ever does this, wishes will just remain wishes. Craig On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:59:56 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know what might actually make a wish list more interesting (at least > to me)? What if we had a site we could go to and see a list of all the > pie-in-the-sky kinds of things people wanted, and I as someone who might > want to contribute could say "gee, X over here sounds very interesting > to me, I'd like to do that" and I could kind of "assign" it to myself? > > 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. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
