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[TheSpaceMan]

What kind of media do you use to keep track of development goals and tasks? Is it the same list we see here on the site, or do you have a special unique list where you add the current importent points and todos (beyond the dev page) to keep track of the development. Or some kind of great organizer tool?

The reason for this question is becouse i have had great trouble sorting up todos and development plans and some way you make it look so smooth and easy even if the lists on the site looks giantic pointing anywhere and everywhere.

The problem for me might be that we are a bigger team trying to work together. I seldom have the same problems working alone since then i know what i need to do maybe it's the same for you?

[DrJonez]

These threads are kinda creepy.

[DR]

What sort of project are you involved in then MrTheSpaceMan?

[Toady One]

Yeah, I'd have more difficulty working with additional people on the project, which one reason why I'm resistant to most collaborations.  I have lots of notes in addition to what you see online.  There are tags all over the code with things like "//Req<#>" that I can do a find-in-files search for, so I can keep all my observations organized, and I have that dev visualizer grouping thingy that helps me keep track of related dev note items.  The lists on the site are brief summaries of larger writeups for many of the items, but the details are just coding notes and so on.

[Tamren]

Ive had some volunteer experience coordinating group efforts. 5 minutes later your cleaning stuff off the ceiling and wondering where it all went wrong!  

Still, how does the community rate as a whole so far in terms of bug finding and think tank?

[mickel]

You don't realise it until after you've tried being one, but there's a reason managers get paid better than coders. I'm neither since I suck at both - which I know from practical experience - but I'm more on the Threetoe side of projects (formally, system analysis and design, but that's so prosaic) and can never keep track of all my ideas. Been thinking of setting up myself a wiki, but it never gets done. All of the ones I've found have been too much of a hassle to set up.

[Toady One]

The community is great at finding bugs, and I really couldn't be more pleased with how that has worked out.  Of course, you'll have your work cut out for you with this next version.

The suggestion forum is very lively.  I guess some people have been curious about exactly what I get out of it.  Let's see.  It gives me a feeling for what's annoying people, which has influenced some of my priorities, and a lot of the interface suggestions have been very good even if I haven't been able to act on them yet.  I'm also able to implement many of the small sensible suggestions immediately, and a few of the specific larger ones from a while ago just made the most recent batch of bloats.  I haven't had a chance to work with most of the recent wide-ranging discussions that have been popping up there, but I imagine they'll be quite useful as resources and as springboards for my own information searches and planning when I get to those topics.  I often note down the urls of threads that are relevant to one of my dev items within my internal technical notes.  Algorithm suggestions are hit and miss, mostly miss, but that's to be expected with a closed source project, I suppose.  That said, it's sometimes useful to read over them.

[kitsu]

I haven't used it for any C like language, but I like Leo a great deal for organizing/understanding larger projects - clones are great:
http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html

(The home page is a little disappointing, and not very up to date.)