Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Proposing some ethereal projects ...

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

having had a look at Ethereal in trying to document it, and that is not
complete as yet ... but, I feel that we should perhaps set up some formal
projects to tackle areas of Ethereal that are perhaps not quite done.

These projects would have members, and would discuss what is to be done
about various parts of Ethereal, report back, and then implement the
proposed changes.

I suggest the following projects might be a good start:

1. GUI cleanup. This project would attempt to make those elements of the
GUI that are hard to use, or non-intuitive, easier and more intuitive to
use, if that is possible.

2. Cleanup of Error messages and error message handling. This project would
centralize all error messages in one file perhaps, allocate message IDs to
them, and generally look at the issues of internationalization.  This would
probably include all test strings that are used.

3. Future versions of Ethereal?

4. Other projects?

5. Documentation?

Any thoughts? Is this too hard? Not needed? What?


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
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