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Some sections of the Lumiera website document meeting minutes, discussion protocols and design proposals from the early days of the project; these pages were initially authored in the »Moin Moin Wiki« operated by Cehteh on pipapo.org at that time; this wiki backed the first publications of the »Cinelerra-3« initiative, which turned into the Lumiera project eventually. Some years later, those pages were transliterated into Asciidoc semi-automatically, resulting in a lot of broken markup and links. This is a long standing maintenance problem problem plaguing the Lumiera website, since those breakages cause a lot of warnings and flood the logs of any linkchecker run.
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Design Process : Lumiera Design Process
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|*State* | _Final_
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|*Date* | _2007-06-03_
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|*Proposed by* | ct
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Define a Lumiera design process
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Set up a lightweight formalized process how people can add proposals for the
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Lumiera development.
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Description
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Just use this Wiki to make it easy to add proposals in a well defined manner.
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I'd like to introduce a slightly formalized process for the ongoing Lumiera planning:
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* Every proposal is instantiated as `*Idea*', the author gives other people the
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opportunity to review and comment on it with extreme prejudice, while still
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working out details.
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* When the the `Idea' in a proper form and worked out in most details it
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becomes a `*Draft*' -- such a `Draft' need to be carefully reviewed,
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commented and perhaps corrected and rated by the other Developers.
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* At some point we may decide that a `Draft' becomes a `*Final*' (I leave it
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open how this decision shall be done for now). `Final' RfC documents will be
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imported into the Git repository.
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* Sometimes proposals will become dropped for some reason, this is indicated
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by changing their state to `*Dropped*', they still stay in the system for
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further reference.
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Tasks
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* We need to build and refine a ``Design Process Template''.
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Pros
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* Simple
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* Flexible
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* No much rules
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* Persistent and at Final stage well documented process
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Cons
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* Could be abused/vandalized (but wiki can use ACL's)
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* Depends on my server, this might be unfavorable or unreliable, ymmv.
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* Will only work if all or almost all involved people agree on this process
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Alternatives
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* We could use some forum, Trac, Mailinglist or whatever instead.
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* Just for Design documentation I would give
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070625100128/http://bouml.free.fr/[Bouml] a
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try. +
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For myself, I am not very fond of UML Design tools, while Bouml looks
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quite promising and we could maintain the UML model in git repositories
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which would be more favorable than this centralized wiki. The backside is
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that this needs even more agreement between the developers, everyone has to
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install and use bouml (and learn its usage) and design is constrained by a
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external tool.
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Rationale
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Wiki already works, it is simple to use and just flexible enough to handle the task.
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I won't go to install any other software for such tasks on my server. While the
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design progresses I'd propose to move our work into Git repositories and
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eventually phase this wiki pages out anyways. I'd rather like to start out
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distributed/git right away ... but git gives us only a fine storage layer, for a
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design process we need some good presentation layer (later when using Git and
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starting the implementation everyones favorite editor serves for that) I have
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no better ideas yet to solve the presentation problem other than using this
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wiki (or maybe bouml).
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Back to link:/x/DesignProcess.html[Lumiera Design Process overview]
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