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Suppose that in planning a project there has been some
agreement upon a target list of contents to be successively
implemented / included to some envisaged R-package.
To avoid double work, it would be nice if anyone who is
working on one item of the list could signal this to
anyone else who might be interested in doing so.
This could be done by some sort of maintained target / todo
list, where these "signallings" are gathered and which should
be visible to anyone browsing through the R-Forge pages, no
matter if he is subscribed to this project or not.
Subscribers however should get notified by e-mail on
every change of this list.
Now suppose some new collaborator A wants to contribute code;
then he could subscribe to R-forge, see this table, select the
topic to work on; if someone else B is working on it, too,
A could simply contact B by e-mail; else A simply inscribes
(or gets inscribed) into the table.
If someone stops working on some topic this should also be
signalled on this list.
So as far as I can see this could be a generally useful
feature for R-forge, which should not be extremely hard
to implement.
For the moment, we could at least sort of manually maintain
this list, and provided there is not hundreds of volunteers,
I think this should not mean too much effort for the admin ---
but I may get disproved as to this.
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