OT (maybe): developer tool question

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:22 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> In my experience, wiki's only seem to work well when people are doing
>> non-serious work.  In all other cases there tends to be a single author
>> contributing 99% of the content to any given page, and everyone else is an
>> idle spectator.
>
> I would expect this to be the case here as well. In this case, the
> developer with primary responsibility for a specific app would probably
> be the one suggesting the most things. But at least he has a place to
> keep these thoughts, where they are available for comment. It is meant
> to be informal. A place to keep statements like "Wouldn't it be nice if
> the app did X?". or "Why does this app do X when that other app also
> does X?"
>
> We had thought of a bugzilla dedicated to TODO items. We are using
> Bugzilla for defect and customer-related issues. But I do not think
> Bugzilla lends itself to this.

I agree that Bugzilla is not a good place for task management or project 
planning.  I guess a wiki is better, but I absolutely detest every single 
wiki's retarded markup language.  HTML has been around for how many years 
now, and is sane and logical.  wiki markup differs from one wiki to 
another, and is utterly retarded on all of them.  What irks me even more 
is that no wiki that I've ever used respects HTML tags at all, so i waste 
tons of time having to relearn wiki markup tags every time i want to enter 
in some content.

>
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a pointer to a 'productivity' app:
>>>
>>> I have a number of developers that, like all developers, need to
>>> communicate better. As a minimum, we need to have a good way of
>>> brainstorming about the development of various apps and systems and keep
>>> the results of this brainstorming. Most of our development is of things
>>> we will continue to refine over time.
>>>
>>> We have been considering a wiki-type setup where we can have sort of
>>> structured discussions over time. Not really like a blog in that the
>>> discussions of work to do not just ramble on. Instead they are refined
>>> as the discussions proceed. Of course, rambling should have a place here
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions of such an environment? It need not be a
>>> wiki. If I use a wiki, I am leaning to docuwiki. Any comment?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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