[gdal-dev] Wiki whist list page ?

[Peter Halls]

Many thanks, Jukka.

I agree that separating bugs from enhancements could be useful -
especially as the enhancements list would represent tasks not yet
attainable in the GDAL Suite and if there is an opportunity to add a
'me too' flag.  This latter could help indicate enhancement requests
with a broader interest.  Of course, there will be a need for periodic
review: some enhancement requests will reflect existing functionality
or recently added facilities.  It might be usefull to annotate
fulfilled enhancement requests with the version number in which it was
delivered.  There may be times when a submitted bug becomes an
enhancement request, perhaps due to the scale of the changes
necessary.

Best wishes,

Peter Halls

On 12 December 2014 at 14:48, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seeing Jukka's effort those last days to clean dust from GDAL Trac tickets
> (folks, please give him a huge thank, as this is one of the most tedious task
> possible !), I was wondering if enhancement tickets shouldn't be migrated to a
> single, and structured, page, especially when there are really under the whish
> list form, without any proposed patch or data, where the ticket system doesn't
> bring much value.
> I'm not sure this will solve or improve anything either. Just the feeling that
> those enhancement tickets are burried forever (and sometimes ideas expressed
> in those tickets have been finally implemented independantly), so I was
> wondering about an alternative. At least a few issues I can anticipate:
> - will users know that this page exists and use it appropriately ? (e.g. we
> wouldn't want bug reports to go here, or would we ?)
> - can we assume that they will be willing/able to edit a wiki page ?
>
> On the plus side, it could be a nice entry point for people who want to start
> contributing something (GSoC students) and don't have precise ideas (although
> your own ideas are generally a better motivation than the ones of somebody
> else)
>
> So here's my proposed skeleton :
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/WishList
>
> Another variation would be to keep it just as a skeleton and use Trac requests
> by keywords to fill the various categories (like done in
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW and similar pages for example)
>
> Even
>
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