[Zope3-dev] Development methodology (Re: [Zope-CMF] Future CMF)
(rant)
Chris Withers
chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:44:04 +0100
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Maybe this is a key observation: that the PEP process works better
> than the Fishbowl process because it is a little more formal. A PEP
> requires you to keep everything in one place and spend some time
> editing it so that it's understandable for outsiders. The PEP editor
> enforces form standards, and keeps a centralized index, so you can
> always find all PEPs. PEPs also have categories, like proposal,
> draft, standard, final, rejected, etc., which help. Finally, PEPs
> have a short name (the 1-4 digit PEP number) which makes references
> easier and seems to be easier to remember than the typical Wiki name.
These are all really good points...
> Wikis often wither on the vine: we recently had a semi-disaster in the
> Python community with Wikis, where a Wiki was proposed and created for
> communications regarding backporting of fixes to Python 2.2.2, and
> then left mostly unused. The few people who did use the Wiki found
> their bugs being ignored; most people who backported bugs didn't
> bother updating the Wiki.
I've long had the feeling that Wiki's appear to bve a very nice solution to this
class of problems but just don't work in practice :-(
How do other people feel about this?
cheers,
Chris