CAcert System Admins discussion list

["Ian G (Audit)" <iang AT cacert.org>]

On 14/3/09 04:12, Daniel Black wrote:

> > > If its a urgent requirement should the be fortnightly or monthly board
> > > reports on progress? At least this will stress how important it is.
> > I think I would rather see a tracing of the requirements back to the
> > above board and audit priorities.
>
> whats the best way to link to these requirements?


Well, in that wiki page, I would simply write how it relates to the 
board's priorities.

However, I am confused by one thing.  There have been discussions in the 
past about how to get things done in software development and the answer 
has often been to put them into bugs.c.o.

What then is the relationship between these two places?

(And, how many other places are there?)

(note that the new SP has a section on software assessment that should 
inform a lot of this in the future.)


> > Otherwise, it is liable to be
> > deferred for now.  It's also a bit controversial to talk about this sort
> > of stuff because while we are talking about that, critical things like
> > lack of the test1 service, the dropping of old assurers and the mailouts
> > of the assurer and contract letters aren't getting done.
>
> ok so prioritizing has to be done.
>
> Short of any objection within a few days. I'll setup the following categories
> on the SystemTasks wiki. I'll give people a week or two to reorganise these
> according to priority. Within a week or two I'll cleanup the UnPrioritized
> tasks.
>
> Major headings:

Maybe you are better off by adding them not as headings but as tags to 
each entry.  That is, some tasks will fall into many categories.

If you try and drive all of these things into a perfectly organised 
tree-structured ontological marvel, you'll run the risk of going the 
same way as the last 3 that tried to reorganise CAcert doco ... carted 
off to the loonie bin after loosing a week and a mind, moving everything 
around to zero effect.


> Audit Tasks
>
> CAcert Community Members Tasks
>
> CAcert staff tasks
>
> UnPrioritized (temporarly): - use this until stuff is moved into one of the
> above or below.
>
> Create a separate page for LessCriticalSystemTasks
>
> with the remaining tasks under the headings:
>
> Features for CAcert community members
>
> Development to Promote Certificates
>
> Features for CAcert staff
>
> Development to Benefit CAcert systems


I'm also wondering whether the tasks there are "outsourcable" and that's 
why they are there in this list, and not in bugs.co.


iang

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