[hpsdr] Proposal

[Joe Martin K5SO]

All,

After considering Phil's suggestion to reorganize the HPSDR project  
listings and reviewing the current arrangement on the HPSDR site I  
personally find the current organization of the site listings to be  
quite suitable and appropriate as it exists, with the possible  
exception that the wiki pages and the HPSDR site could perhaps be  
combined somehow to make things easier to find.

Currently the status of each of the HPSDR projects is clearly shown on  
the right hand side of the main HPSDR page when any particular project  
is clicked on the top tab.  The problem with Phil's suggestion to move  
projects that are developing more slowly than others to a special  
category is establishing what the cutoff time for inactivity should be  
to initiate such a move, or deciding when a project should be moved  
from the the "special" location to a "normal" project location.  I  
believe that moving slowly developing projects to such a location  
would diminish an easy appreciation by the casual reader of the  
breadth and scale of the overall HPSDR project complete with all of  
its wide-ranging projects.

The general description of the HPSDR project seems to me to make it  
clear to even the most casual reader that some projects shown will  
naturally develop faster than others and that all comers are welcome  
to participate in the development of any of the projects in which   
they happen to have an interest, with the welcome particularly  
extended to those who may be willing to assist in development of  
projects that may be progressing apparently slowly or that are  
apparently (temporarily or indefinitely) stalled.  Because a proposed  
project may be apparently stalled does not mean that the idea is a  
poor one, or less valid as an HPSDR project than any other, or that no  
one will ever take it further forward.

I, for one, don't find the HPSDR site in any particular need of major  
reorganization.  It seems to me that the HPSDR site serves the goals  
of HPSDR just fine as it is.  Indeed, a casual viewer is presently  
able to discern without difficulty which projects are available from  
TAPR as fully assembled units, which are available as kits, which are  
being prototyped, and which are much, much earlier along in the cycle  
by glancing at the STATUS shown prominently on the page.  I'm not  
saying the HPSDR site is perfect but it's not that bad in my view!

73,  Joe K5SO


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