Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Holmes <cholmes@...>
> Date: May 14, 2007 3:25:15 PM EDT
> To: help@...
> Subject: suggestions from a beta tester
>
> My friend Ank is starting to use the site.  I told him to send the  
> next email directly to help.  If you want to you can just point him  
> to trac, though maybe help him with how to categorize things.  But  
> he had some decent suggestions (and some confusion):
>
>
> first of all, since it's apparently in a beta stage, i would  
> suggest some testing/featurerequest framework additions. it would  
> be nice if on every page there was a sort of box where you could  
> put in a comment or question or bug or feature or whatever -- the  
> information would aggregate to your "help cart" with the relevant  
> link, so you dont have to keep pasting different links. at some  
> point, maybe when you logout or whatever, it would clear the cache  
> and send the info onwards... on the backend you could have it send  
> to your programmer as 1 email or x emails, selon lui.
>
> LISTS
> i created a couple of lists for ccbg, one for people who were into  
> helping out with the project and one for the masses to receive  
> information about the latest developments.
> a) i couldnt find the page to mass subscribe people for the second  
> list, without having them also be part of the "team".
> b) its also confusing when you can use normal emails and when you  
> have to use openplans logins.
> c) there are times id like to invite people to be openplans users  
> so they could take advantage of the facilities, ie have matt be an  
> admin on the list or something. should there not be a facility  
> where you can put in an email and it will tell you, "this option  
> restricted to openplans users, would you like to invite x to be a  
> user" or even a page (the people tab would make sense) dedicated to  
> invitations. a good way to get more people onboard methinks.
> d) also when youre managing membership of a list it doesnt say the  
> name of the list. so fragile minds could get confused if/when they  
> have multiple lists they need to manage.
>
> TASKTRACKER
> i just barely started using it so these are more general questions  
> that may actually be solved out there. in general i felt there  
> wasn't a lot to offer me. i somehow expected more. im not sure  
> what. what is the intention? is tasktracker meant to help you share  
> information as well?
>
> a) document sharing. lets say a task is to get the lyrics to matt's  
> songs on the website. for that i would need a better deadline  
> system (with a calendar), the ability to have multiple people  
> assigned to a task (couldnt tell if that already exists), and the  
> ability for matt to upload some lyrics for me to see. I would need  
> to revise them and share them with him. so some sort of version  
> control for documents. images would also be nice.
>
> b) more on the document tip, and this may be getting further away  
> from your intentions, but it would be really nice to have some  
> recommend open source programs linked nearby when you get some  
> strange document. so someone sends me pdf and theres a link to  
> acrobat somewhere, but more open source style. open office, gimp,  
> zip programs, etc. or you could go the google docs way and try to  
> do it all online.
>
> c) is there a way to see graphically / chronolically, how many taks  
> a person or intersection of people or team has? can you have teams  
> and subteams?
> -- 
> Chris Holmes
> The Open Planning Project
> http://topp.openplans.org