[openi18n-im:01237] Communications & Tools for the project

Hi all,

I thought of this topic for a while and finally I got a chance to finish
dropping all the points. There are couple of things that we should look
into to improve communication - both inwards (between contributors) and
outwards (toward users).

Inwards communication accelerates our development.
Outwards communication increases wider adoption of the project.

-- Discussions/Info --
Initially we have used mailing list extensively.

Recently we have added IRC which quite a lot of people like it.

Mailing list is good for discussion in certain extends, but it is not a
media to store outcome/notes. Archive does not serve this purpose well.

Meeting. As we have a common goal and schedule now. Do we need one to
keep updated from each other and discuss any common issues?

Web page for IIIMF. Any improvement on this area? Is it an info riching
area, and does it allow you to request/add information easily?

Should we use tool like like Wiki? How much information on IIIMF you
want to share but there aren't any place for it?

Blog? If you have Blog, how much information are you putting out on
IIIMF? Will Blog aggregator be useful to show all the contributor's
blogs?

-- Development --
Bug Tracking system. This is important because it is a central place for
user/QA/Developers to exchange information. Have we used it well enough?
If not what is the obstacle that prevent you using it?

Version control system. Do you find any difficulties or thought of
enhancements we should make?

I hope this will open a dialog for us to create some discussions on
improvements.

Regards,
Leon