- Berklee and Sloan decide they are going to enhance the
survey package. - You spec out your requirements.
- You do a quick search of the bboards to see what
conversations have taken place that might be relevant to their
goals (like
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002Qz&topic_id=11&topic=OpenACS,
for example) and incorporate any ideas that you like - You post a message to bboard saying, "We're going to
enhance surveys. Here are our high-level functional
requirements and rough spec. Obviously, we're going to have to
do this in a way that meets our needs, but before we start
building, does anybody have any ideas/suggestions/requests for
us to keep in mind?" - You read the suggestions and take the ideas you like.
- You post a message to the thread saying, "Here's what we've
decided to do. We'll let you know when we're ready to release the
code.
The original post was intended to inform the community we were at Step 1.