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Dave did NOT regard himself/herself as:

1. What are the objectives of an IFHOSP site?

1.1 Provide good services to the comminuity.
To serve the Free Software/Open Source community
1.2 Provide a collaberative effort tools.
To support concurrent and collaborative software development
To provide tools needed to achieve the objectives of IFHOSP

2. What tools can be employed on an IFHOSP site and what are the important features and usability factors for each of them?

No Comment

3. What work practices and culture should be promoted?

3.1 Checking code into a common repository.
Using centralised repository for source code
3.2 Providing incident tracking.
Tracking System
3.3 Providing bug tracking.
Tracking System
3.4 Providing release build testing.

To include automated building and testing facilities in releases

4. What are factors that movitate users to use an IFHOSP site?

4.1 No Comment.

5. What are barriers that prevent users from using an IFHOSP site?

5.1 Difficult to casually browse w/o a username
Difficult to casually browse or some information cannot be accessed without a username
5.2 Tools that are hard to use or that are impossible to get ones work done.

Counterproductive user interface
Not providing the tools or the features needed

6. What are the positive results for users in using an IFHOSP site?

6.1 No Comment.

7. What are the negative results for users in using an IFHOSP site?

7.1 No Comment.

8. What are factors that motivate adminstrators to setup or maintain an IFHOSP site?

8.1 No Comment.

9. What are barriers that prevent adminstrators from setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

9.1 Software is too hard to configure.
Technical overhead is too high

10. What are the positive results for adminstrators in setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

10.1 No Comment.

11. What are the negative results for adminstrators in setting up or maintaining an IFHOSP site?

11.1 No Comment.

12. What are other important issues in IFHOSP?

12.1 Needs to be fair to all open source efforts.

Fair to all efforts


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