Design Tracker (Was Re: [Maxima] How to get diff...)

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:37:34 -0500
"Stavros Macrakis" <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> wrote:

> Does anyone on this list have experience with Wikis used in this way?
> (Or pointers to successful Wikis of this sort?)  The Wikis I've seen are
> mostly about documenting an existing body of knowledge.  In this case,
> it is a question of documenting discussion and debate.  I am not sure
> that Wikis are the ideal way to do this, but it's worth trying,
> especially if we can find a successful model.

I don't know if it's a wiki per say, but check out the Fresco project's approach to this - they have lots of design issues they discuss and have worked out a system for it.  They have two sections on the site currently - Bugs and Tasks.  Bugs are issues pertaining to current code, and tasks are pertaining to things not in the code yet.  We've got sourceforge for bugs right now, but maybe we can adopt this code and have a system where people wishing to discuss a design issue open an issue, and discussion of the issue occurs in the forum associated with that issue.  Check out tasks at http://issues.fresco.org to see how their system is set up.  Who knows, maybe their bug setup is sufficiently better to merit parsing the sf bugs over into a new setup too - they at least seem to have a decent bug search facility.

> Also, what do you do if you want to download a snapshot of an entire
> Wiki?  Is there anything like a cross between Wiki and CVS?

There I don't know how issues.fresco.org's setup would work, although I suppose it could be added without too much trouble.

CY