Tracker wishlist
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Requirements for a GO wiki/tracker system
Our high priorities:
- General
- Calendar / time lines / to do lists to show what curators have planned
- Create personal pages which show what someone is working on
- Tracker
- Add user configurable categories to an entry, e.g. how easy it is to complete, whether it would need people to look at annotations, which interest groups it may affect
- Be able to configure the order of comments, perhaps with a hyperlinked index at the top summarising person/date for each comment
- For obsoletions / changes, agree/disagree choices for GO consortium members to register their vote
- Auto-email entries where people have to vote
- If there's a specific person or persons you want to look at an entry, they will be alerted by email
- As with SourceForge, people can choose to track an item, and it emails them each time a new comment is made to that tracker item - but - it only emails the new comment, not the whole thread (this could be a user configurable option)
- Indication of a submitter's confidence in the proposal; is it complete and ready to GO, or are there questions (e.g. "I think we might need a new term here")
- Indication of curator's opinion on how easy it will be to implement
Things that would be nice, but aren't essential:
- RSS feed of new tracker items
- Tracker features
- Wiki features like comments, ability to put in pictures, links, attachments, etc., in a more intuitive way than SF offers; also ability to edit comments when you've written something incomprehensible or stupid!
- Page counters so you can see if anyone else has looked at the item!
- Be 'ontology-aware' - perhaps being able to draw subtrees in the entry, and edit other people's subtrees
- New term suggestions can come in as OBO stanzas; might help encourage submitters to include definition, references, parentage, etc.
- Import from SourceForge so we have a single archive
Other systems we saw and liked:
- TRAC (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/)
- the simplicity of the Mac forum (http://forums.macosxhints.com/)
- Confluence (http://forums.macosxhints.com/)
- None of these would completely met our needs, but gives you an idea of the sort of thing we're
after.