On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 28. Juli 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > ...or for some alternative tool. Ana mentioned Penta being too complex > > and too buggy and proposed to switch (albeit that noone responded...) > > The proposal lacked an alternative to switch to. Suggesting to switch > because "foo sux" without giving alternatives is not really helpful. (It is, > when it's unknown that there are problems. Which is not the case here, we are > very aware that penta has issues - we simply didnt find a working alternative > yet.) I'd like to try to frame this another way: We could use more people looking at and working penta, or a possible new conference management system. I think it's quite possible many possible volunteers have been shooed away because they think there work won't come to anything. One of the main reasons I've heard to consider moving to something else is so that more people can work on solving problems and adding new features, and handing off maintainership could be done more easily. Of course, getting new penta hackers, perhaps even merging all the debconf-specific changes to the latest penta version, would negate this advantage of a completely new system. In fact, someone in charge of working out the current problems (for the most part, handling user and team requests) and adding new features in penta would almost undoubtedly be better than something new. So it boils down to what we can do to get new people involved: Penta, or something new? Speaking of which, if anyone is interested in helping out here, I will help to make it happen (connecting you with the right people). I don't think I have the time or ability to do it myself, though. What do you all think? It seems to me "whatever we can most easily get people to work on" is a good compromise. > One feature an alternative tool would need to have is the integration of our > video workflow for releasing archived files. Yes -- can be solved with someone willing to put forth the effort to do so... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - lefschetz: up 175 days, 9:55 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free"
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