[tasklist-idea] Re: GNU task list management

[toby cabot]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:15:51PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     There is a link to prep/tasks on www.gnu.org/help 
> 
> What is in prep/tasks now?  Is the obsolete file still there?  Does it
> still contain a list of tasks, or does it have a pointer to the list
> on Savannah?  Should we delete this file to avoid confusion?  Should
> we delete the link?

As of October 29th http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks.html contains a short
document that points to the Savannah tasklist.  The delay in doing
this was evidently caused by a bug in the tasks.texi due to my
texinfo-naivete but the bug has been fixed by "root".

We should probably leave that document in place (since it's likely
that many other sites point to it) but modify our own links to point
to the new task list.

> That sounds like a lot of work to carry out.  I think it is a mistake.
> We never have an excess of human resources.  We need to keep this
> simple.
> 
> I think that one or two people looking at suggestions and deciding
> whether to add them to the list is an adequate method.  Let's avoid
> doing anything more labor-intensive than that.  Okay? 

Okay.  I think that we can keep the system we're using now.  Let me
see if I can describe it:

Jose watches tasks@, and moves worthy ideas to Savannah.  he's been
doing a good job of entering task items as jobs and status changes
(i.e. "task X has been filled") as news items.

Toby watches gvc@ and points volunteers to projects, gives them more
info, etc.

Jose, if you can put as much info as possible into the job postings
themselves then we should be in good shape.