[OGDev] What are people working on?

[Kake L Pugh]

On Sat 03 Mar 2007, IvorW <ivorw-openguides at xemaps.com> wrote:
> The theory is that we coordinate this through the dev wiki, with
> people's home pages carrying their personal todo lists. Granted I
> haven't updated mine for a long while, but I'm going through lots of
> personal stuff at the moment.

I understand that some people prefer doing things on wikis, but I was
rather hoping we could get a bit of a discussion going on the list
over what people are interested in, whether anyone's halfway through
some code and would like some input to get them over a hurdle, whether
someone's longing for a feature that someone else has had some useful
thoughts about, etc.

I kind of miss the big brain dumps Jo used to post to the list.

> Ideally we _should_ all be sharing our code changes with the rest of the
> OpenGuides community. Unfortunately, there are some extremely forked
> code bases out in the big wide world, which is making upgrades difficult
> for some.

It might be worth starting a discussion on why people needed to fork
in the first place.  Was it primarily because you expected to get
around to packaging up your changes and sending in patches, but
didn't?  Or because your patches were difficult to integrate into the
distro for some reason?  Or because you wanted to do something that
wasn't appropriate for the main distro, but couldn't work out how to
do it separately and integrate it into your Guide unobtrusively?  Or
something else?

I'm not thinking along the lines of assigning blame here, more along
the lines of trying to dissect the problem in order to work out what
can be done to solve it.

> Welcome back, we missed you.

Thanks!

Kake