Please forgive the interruption, Quaid, but it seems to me you are placing the same type of project information in two different wiki pages, the Roadmap and the Planning pages. Can we pause and discuss, perhaps in a different thread, what belongs in each page or whether the pages should be combined?
2010/8/25 Karsten Wade - kw...@redhat.com: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:20:59AM -0400, Heidi Ellis wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Other areas for addition to the text are aimed at the next level of >> contribution, once the developer gets up to speed on FOSS. These are along >> the lines of software engineering topics such as: >> >> Requirements - How do you determine the exact requirements of a feature or >> enhancement? How do you do this in an open environment where users may be >> developers and there may be conflict in desired functionality? How do you >> document these? >> >> Design - How do you determine the overall design of a project? How do you >> determine how your piece fits into the overall design? How do you document >> this? What are good design practices that result in good code? >> >> Test - How do you ensure that your patch/enhancement/bug fix is correct? >> Organized approaches to testing. >> >> These are topics that I'd like to talk about in my Software Engineering >> course that are not directly covered in the text. > > I like them. Again, unlike the get-active-in-a-community chapters > that might cover some of these topics, I clearly see the value in a > stand-alone, strategic discussion. > > I compiled our list so far here: > > http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Roadmap#Proposed_new_chapters > > The titles got a bit of a rework, trying to get in to the theme of > chapter titles. > > Too many topics? Not enough? > > I count 17 chapters that _could_ be enough for one week each chapter, > or two chapters per week, depending on class skill level. Of course, > I just made that up ... > > - Karsten _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
