Re: git todo-list ?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 24, 2007, 00:54 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

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> "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does git have todo-list ?
>
> We could start one with an entry:
>
> 	- create a initial set of to-do-list and find a
>           volunteer to maintain it.
>
> perhaps at wiki.or.cz/

Arrgh.  The url is http://git.or.cz/gitwiki

By the way, I see on that wiki that somebody attempted to have a list of Wishlist (http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Wishlist). I think many of them are now irrelevant, or stale, or have been rejected. It even includes tongue-in-cheek suggestions made as counterarguments as if they are serious proposals. I just have done a minimum clean-up but many of them that I did not touch are not necessarily there because I agree they are good suggestions, but because I did not understand what they are talking about.

As with any "tracking" list, wanting to have one and starting is the easy part. Unless kept up to date, such a list becomes quickly useless, or even worse than not having one, leading to wasted wild goose chase if people look at it without knowing how stale it is.

And keeping any such list up-to-date takes a lot of effort. Anybody who attempts it needs to have a lot of time and enough knowledge to sift through both the list traffic to note not just the initial issue-raising, but how the issues have been resolved (or unresolved). I sometimes do that and send out "Unresolved issues" message to the list myself every once in a while, but as the maintainer my attention tends to be more on the big-picture issues and not minor details, and I do not think there are any unresolved issue at the big-picture level that I haven't talked about in recent "What's in / What's cooking" messages.