Hi Marc,
that is a good point. Here is a brief explanation on the whole thing for people watching this space (maybe we can also make a more extensive explanation as a separate thread).
If you don’t know what GIT or a Version control system is, read this, otherwise skip two paragraphs down:
We are using a version control system (here is a explanation on version control systems) to keep track of the tasks raised on the last day of GOSH 2018. More specifically, we are using Git, a system developed for the Linux Kernel project to enable parallel software development. Anyway, the system was widely adopted by software developers and recently by other people keeping track of hardware, design and other projects.
Gitlab, a company offering an open source system for development around git is where we are hosting these projects. Another company you might have heard of (it was recently bought by Microsoft) is GitHub.
In Gitlab, we have created a “Gosh-roadmap” project. Each of the tasks people suggested in Shenzhen were uploaded as “Issues” inside this project, basically because in this system we can assign people to issues and have a nice messaging system where we can link other people/issues and what not (if I’m not mistaken the idea is to also hook the issues with threads in the forum, so everything that is written on Gitlab gets posted directly on a thread in the forum).
To see all the Issues we created, go here. If you would like to see them as parallel boards (with a different organization, but similar content), go here.
In this two views you can search and filter things, so you can find right away things. For instance these are all issues assigned to me.
once you find the issues assigned to you, you can click on it and open the messaging system. In this example, I left a note saying where the project is being developed. I’ll return to it once I have more developments to share. Ideally people would write a little note with developments on regular basis, just to keep others informed and so that we can also make suggestions/offer help, etc.
If people are thinking about sharing more things then messages, let’s say software code, or large documents/texts/images, then I would suggest opening a repository (either Gitlab, or GitHub, whatever people feel more comfortable with, as it is super simple to migrate things from one to the other), and share the link to the repo on the messaging system of their issue. If you never opened a repository and would like to learn how use it, I recommend taking a look here or having a search online for “learning git” or “learning github”. If there are still questions, send us a message here, and we can help out!
sorry, this was a bit longer then I expected. But I hope it is clear enough!
