利用者:Mindrones/Wiki/Proposals/2009/Workflow/Develop
目次
Using wiki for development
Feature requests
- Feature requests from users
- Feature a developer wants to develop
- Companies paying a developer for features they need
Feature requests Tracker
- Feature requests tracker (possibly pubblic)
- Folders with Manual structure
- Ubuntu uses a blueprint system for handling
specifications for new features
Discussion
- Discussion on wiki
- Discussion on blenderartists
- Discussion on IRC
Coding and committing
Then the developer:
- make a unique patch, post it in the tracker and ask other developers/users to revision, and some day his patch goes into trunk, OR
- open an svn branch and start committing patches to svn, and some day his branch is merged to trunk
- in any case he could explain ideas and functionalities in func-board mailing list, in the patch tracker itself, or wiki
Testing / discussion
People compile and try the patch/svn-version and give some feedback in wiki, chat, trackers, or mailing lists
svn log commits tags
At this point we can have one (in case of a patch) or more commits in svn, but release might happen way after this commit.
How to remember this has happened? As for now we have svn log, which has to be read and catalogued "by hand".
Proposal: devs put a newline in their committ like:
WIKI: mesh, undo
and this can be parsed to add a special page in wiki with all the svn logs that contain those TAGS. In case we want to see pages related to more than 1 word, we can use the DynamicPageList alredy installed on Blender wiki.
See this section about categories and tags in wiki.
<bebraw>I thought about the commit tagging problem (how to know which tags to use in the first place). There probably has to be some page that lists all the available tags. This way people actually know which tags they can use. Even better there could be a specific application that would make tagging easier (the app would just help to compose the commit message and help enforce commit rules (header, message content, tags etc.)). As people make mistakes (forget to tag, use wrong tag, etc.) there should be some way to modify the tag information related to commits later (this is probably a system separate from commit log one and is then combined to the original commits somehow?).
The next section might offer a good answer to these thoughts?
Blogging via mail
Some blogging or photo sharing sites let you post blogs (and tag them) via mail:
- Flickr: How can I add tags when I upload via email or my phone?
- Wordpress: Post to your blog using email
- Blogger: How do I post via email?
- Posterous: Posterous launches easy post tagging via email
Since Apricot's blog uses Wordpress, which has an xmlrpc interface, it lets you blog via mail! :)
Using the same (already known) software, we could setup a blog just for publishing svn logs and we would have a ready-made system for let users manage tags :)
It would be a matter of set svn to send mails to blog mail (together with usual mails to bf-blender-cvs list).
Then with a python script we could retrieve the tags and periodically update a wiki "svnlog" page (with Categories as chapters and tags as sub-chapters), or many svnlog pages divided per categories and tags. See this reference.
Discussion