[tasklist-idea] Re: GNU task list management

[toby cabot]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:29:35AM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>  > I wonder about using the bug facility in savannah, instead of defining
>  > new/more processes for handling the task list.  It seemed quite flexible
>  > when I set it up for Texinfo, anyway, although I have not actually used
>  > it extensively.
> 
> Perhaps that would be a good option. It is posible to easily extract a
> list from the bug facility? 

I'd prefer to use the job posting facitlity on Savannah, because I
like the idea of having one big marketplace where projects and people
can search for one another in a decentralized way.  Savannah isn't
there yet, but I think it has more potential for that than a flat text
file.  OTOH, there's a lot of information *behind* each posting (at
least there should be) so we should have some mechanism for storing
that background and I think text is fine.  Examples:

 - who asked for it
 - what they meant
 - examples of non-free software to use as a guide
 - others who would like to hear about it

Having this info would make my life much easier when volunteers
volunteer to the gvc list.  Today I often have two choices: tell the
volunteers "I don't know", or hassle the GNU old-timers.  Both options
suck.

I don't think that extracting a tasklist from the Savannah project
would be difficult at all, it would just involve hacking the existing
PHP scripts.  What seems to be difficult is to climb the Savannah
learning curve.