[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:02:48PM -0800, Marlene Bruce wrote:
> >I think what we've done here (in steering) is
> >to decide in principle that we would like to change the hosting,
> >change the backend, and change the design.  Shouldn't it be opened up
> >to comments or a vote now by the membership?
>
> We can. I thought it might be helpful to set some deadlines so we
> know what we're aiming for. The deadlines can be moveable depending
> on the reality of the circumstances, but having some kind of defined
> goals (move the site/lists/create evolters) WITH a suggested time
> line (or even a deadline) will help us. If we say we want to be done
> in 3 months (or whatever seems appropriate) then we're shooting for
> *something*. We all know how it is around here with regards to
> timeliness, and if we don't have a goal we won't reach it.
>
> Could we get all this done by May Day?

We can set some sort of deadline but if may be moot if theforum does
not want to go forward with the changes.  So I wouldn't get too caught
up with setting a hard and fast deadline at this point.


> >If we are going to make progress with this, I'd suggest that we break
> >it down into smaller pieces.
>
> Absolutely. Here's the pieces that Martin outlined:
>
> 1) Host published articles as at present
> 2) Support a general purpose wiki
> 3) Enable a subset of members to add private content (eg photos,
> non-published pages, private wikis, discussion fora, events, news,
> links) via a web front end - no ftp.
> 4) Do all the above with a single signon
> 5) Publish list info about lists beyond that which is on their Mailman
> listinfo page
>
> Is there anything else we need to add?
>
> (Easier submission & tracking of bugs/feature requests. Integrated
> search. Improved IA/design.)
>
> Or did you mean different kinds of pieces?

A little of both.  The pieces that I meant were the sites and/or
functionality that we want to move to a separate host as in John's
original message.  Of course, this involves mentioning the stuff
mentioned above.  However, the stuff above is starting to sound a
little like a design specification as if we were going to rebuild
everything.


> P.S. This coming December evolt.org will be celebrating its 5th birthday!

Yeah, we missed the fourth one.  Or at least there was no mention of
it on the site.  We also missed the Nov/Dec community news article.

Dean