Re: Submission procedures

[Guido Draheim]

Don't use trackers - it makes it harder to discuss some
enhancements with the author of new ac-macro submission.
We are not speaking about patching a functional project
but just managing communication lines between macro
writers and macro users. E-mail is a good tool for that.
-- guidod


Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to complete the new "how to submit" instructions,
> and I'd like to get your opinions on the proper procedure
> before finishing that document.
> 
> Savannah does have various "trackers" like sf.net does,
> including a "patch tracker" which could be used to submit new
> macros. The tracker could do all kinds of neat things like
> sending out notifications of changes to this list, sending out
> reminders to if an item hasn't been processed for too long,
> etc.
> 
> Do you think this approach has merits compared to the way we
> have been doing it so far, which is "just e-mail it to
> address@hidden"? I tend to prefer e-mail over
> weird web-based things, but using the trackers may increase
> transparency a bit. I don't know. What do you think?
>