2012/2/28 Sébastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> > What framework would you suggest? JIRA? Wiki? > > When I started working on iterative linear solvers, I added a feature > request in the Wiki, and tried to start a structured page where the > design issues would be gathered. As it attracted only very mild (not > to say nil) interest, I gave up, and used a mixture of mailing-list > and JIRA. This is quick and efficient, but not (in my view) a good way > of structuring and filing decisions (especially info exchanged on the > ML). >
Personally, I like JIRA a lot, and try to put the stuff I would like to work on there. > This is actually a good point. As far as I know, new committers are > instructed on the CM website to go to the Wiki (which is but rarely > used). Maybe we should change that and move the MathWishList to as > many JIRA tickets as necessary? In that case, the website should be > changed accordingly. Otherwise, we can keep the Wiki, and commit > ourselves to using it... > When I started contributing to CM, I looked at the MathWishlist on the wiki, but it looked a bit outdated or was lacking more details. So I found looking at the open issues in jira an easier way to start contributing and also communicating with other people (aside from the ML). Thomas
