The pentabarf user interface sucks. We did a lot of work this year, to make it suck less, but it still suck. I sent tons of mails to people who hadn't filled in their information correctly. Something needs to be done about it.
These are my suggestions (which I might submit to rt if there's consensus about them): 1) Remove unneeded tabs (availability is never used, links and description can also be discarded). 2) Make "Show all" the default. 3) Make "I want to attend this conference" default to true. This is supposed to be a technical problem. So, I suggest making it a drop-down with "Yes", "No", "Maybe" and default to Yes. 4) Add links to more information where appropriate (what's the assassins game, what's the planned daytrip, what are the proceedings). 5) Move "country" to the first tab. 6) Do not allow reconfirmation without dates. All in all, I think that these ideas just make the problem slightly less, instead of actually solving it. I can't think of how to actually solve the problem (which is: most people won't fill in all the important data, unless you ping them over and over again), but it would be nice if it were possible, so, if someone has a suggestion that would help solve the problem, please make it now. Also, from the admin side, there were lots of reports that I needed. Most were done by sgran (THANKS), some where done by des (THANKS too), and some by Ganneff (THANKS as well). But I really felt crippled by not being able to do the queries I wanted when I wanted them, and having to have some of the admins work for me. I think that a better solution needs to be found for this. -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
