[Frugalware-devel] Collaborative editing for FrugalBuild development?

[Miklos Vajna]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:01:40PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> With some new packagers getting started I had an idea when I recently
> visited the web of Gobby - the collaborative text editor.  Instead of
> passing email messages back and forth when reviewing and correcting a
> new packager's FrugalBuild file, perhaps collaborative session could
> be a better method?

it may be helpful to some user, sure. however many of the devs
(including myself) are console monkeys, so such graphical editors would
be quite a pain for us ;) not counting that not everyone has gnome
installed. (gobby requires half gnome ;) )

> As I see it working, the learner and the teacher(s) would arrange in
> advance a Gobby session and in that session correct a FrugalBuild.
> With the chat facility etc it would be a much quicker process overall
> and feedback could be provided immediately.

right. it's a pain and a benefit at once ;) it's great when you have a
lot of free time but email is quite efficent - i think - for async
communication :)

> I like the Ubuntu project's occasional IRC sessions in which they
> discuss various topics, some of which are intended to be educational.
> With such sessions though it's difficult to know how many people will
> attend so so whether or not it's worth running them.

exactly. i think voroskoi (and me and others as well) spent days with
writing documentation (we hate writing any type of docs ;) ) to help
newcomers, so at the moment i think it's not that hard to start :) and
once one read the releveant documentation, we can help via email or irc
already.

> Just (another) thought...  Of course I know nothing about packaging
> (yet) so it wouldn't be my time being taken up by these sessions.  :)

i may seem to be a bit destructive here, forgive me :) i just don't
think i would volunteer to use such an editor unless somebody pays me :D

- VMiklos
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