> I simply requested the account on that persons system because I offered to
You are not the only one with limited time. Sorry for the late reply,
but also I wanted to provide details as to why.
Your text was:
"If you provide me an account and if everyone is OK sending me minimally
formatted TODO lists I will gladly be the point of contact and maintain that
list.
What qualifies as minimally formatted?
1) Each item on a separate line prepended with a *.
2) (OPTIONAL) If you want, order them by importance.
I will attempt to clean-up grammar and spelling.
"
The short of it is that in it if you look at it. It add more work to the
developers by asking them to send in stuff. They already have it done
for some. So, why duplicate the list. It will just get out of sync and
obsolete very soon. Plus they have a list, so I think the most logical
and efficient way to do it would be just like this:
1. Name
2. Very short blurb for area the todo cover
3. URL to the developers list.
And that's it.
Nothing more is needed. Frankly if a developer spend time making a todo
list and publish it, then it must be some what maintain when ever they
have time. Asking to add more management to track it and maintain yet an
additional list is wrong in my book. Plus I am still not convince it's
helpful, but never the less I would sure be welcome to be proven wrong.
The only think that this gives me as an idea that may have some merit is
that a list of user group might be good to have and I can add that to
the site. But again, that should be as minimal as possible.
City, state or province, country, language and URL to the site for the
group. If no URL, then some details could be added and that may actually
get some usage may be.
But keeping the time needed to maintain anything like this is a plus and
not required any more from the developers have to be the goal. But
again, I am not sure it's even good, but like I said, I am not oppose
to. Like everyone else I have very little time and I didn't reply
before, nor this morning to your email at 5:32AM when I saw it at 7:30
AM EST as I just finish an other project and I do need to get some sleep
sometime as little as it might be and I have some kind of a life too and
kids to take care of as well.
So, sorry for the delay.
Like I said, I am not doing a perfect job and I will admit that, but I
try. Better then most anyway that asked and do nothing.
I will continue off list for the rest as there is no point on doing it here.
I already saved the email from Alexandre Ratchov for his list that he
sent to misc@. Just didn't have time to post it yet, but it will.
Now I need to go feed the kids, so more delay on my part.
Best,
Daniel
