[Scummvm-devel] Wiki feedback

[Johannes Schickel]

>> The feature request tracker is the only place where random users can
>> post requests (I think, is that right?). As soon as a feature request
>> is approved, it should be deleted/closed and moved to the wiki (it
>> should be the responsibility of the person who closes it).
>>     

Personally I prefer the feature request tracker for feature requests 
instead of having them somewhere on the wiki. First of all you can 
monitor them on the feature request tracker (easily) to get new status 
information, like someone willing to work,  suggestions/feedback from 
other users/developers etc. That's all something the wiki can't do 
easily (or I'm not informed enough about the possibility of our wiki ;-).

Anyway I definitely wouldn't like that the feature request entries 
should be moved to the wiki. Also I'm not aware that we "approve" 
feature requests. We rather reject some (or lower the priority by a lot).

>> The wiki is good for users but not so much for developers.
>>     
>
> Hehe, my feeling so far is quite the opposite ;).
>   

Same here, the wiki does not offer any way to comment about feature 
requests for example, while the feature request tracker does. This is 
because we do not allow public account generation for our wiki (which I 
consider good btw.), I guess, so the feature request tracker at least 
offers a way for the users to comment on things (after registering with 
sf.net of course). So all in all the trackers should be nicer to use for 
users than our wiki ;-).

On the other hand the wiki is a place there the developers can put their 
TODOs etc. Though I think the wiki lacks nice notifications like the 
sf.net trackers. For example I consider the wiki watch-list far worse 
than the possibility to get notification emails from sf.net about 
tracker changes. (I'm not aware that this is also possible with the wiki 
btw.) This makes the wiki not the best place for developers too.

So all in all I would rather say the wiki is good for users searching 
for information and not wanting to do feature requests / bug reports / 
etc., also the wiki offers an ok to good feature support for developers, 
but still lacking feature to make it *the* way to go IMHO. The trackers 
on the other hand are IMHO still the best way for both people to comment 
about feature requests / bugs / etc. Of course they lack a nice way to 
handle TODO items... at least I wouldn't consider having a TODO tracker, 
which keeps an entry for every TODO item we have, a nice idea ;-).

// Johannes