[openi18n-im:01248] Re: Communications & Tools for the project

Leon Ho wrote:
> Inwards communication accelerates our development.
> Outwards communication increases wider adoption of the project.

Yes, this is the key point. :-)

> 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?

I don't know how to log into the website,
so I'm not able to contribute to it.  I haven't used
postnuke much either I'm not really in position to judge
how well it fits our needs.  It would be good to revamp
in the near future though IMHO, and try to improve the layout
and organisation of information.

Currently the website is not very actively maintained - for lack
of time by the core developers understandably. :)  I think
we need to share the maintenance of the website better;
with delegation I'm sure we can improve it significantly.

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

As the project is growing and gathering a userbase and community
for this project to flourish we really need a dynamic Wiki site
where the community and developers can work together on notes,
project plans, support information, faq's, and so on.

> 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?

Again I'm not able to access my account here: so having never
used mantis I can't really judge its capabilities or ease of use.
I wonder if we wouldn't be better off using bugzilla, which is being
used widely by many FOSS projects these days.

Without good issue tracking, we're not going to see a significant
improvement in quality of iiim.  Up to now we've basically been using
our own Bugzilla system to track bugs, but we really need to track them
at the project level for maximum leverage for everybody.

Jens