If you have thoughts on this, even if they are complete duplicates of
other lists, please post. Newbies especially, please post. My
purpose is to generate a sense of what people want urgently, and while
if we put it all together we get a wishlist, if we look at the
commonalities we get priorities.
Of course, the next question is how we execute on those priorities.
My sense is that there are two main ways that OpenACS development
occurs: either a paying client needs something incrementally advanced
from what the toolkit does, or one of the core volunteers dedicates a
few days of furious coding to knock off something. While we can't
really make demands on our volunteer heroes, we can express the things
that we think are most urgent and most helpful. I also would like to
see the core team identify some more avenues for work to get into the
code base. One is code patches, which we've heard before haven't
always been picked up frequently enough for contributors to see
positive results. Another is package maintainers, a process we
haven't managed to get working yet. If people have suggestions, or
descriptions of what's working on other open-source projects, please
post.
