Hi, On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:23:35 +0200 Arno Töll wrote: > I appreciate your efforts and I like the idea of reportbug integration. > I won't comment about the patch itself, I am not maintaining the > reportbug package, so I can't judge.
Thanks for your kind words. > However please note, mentors.debian.NET is not an official Debian > project. The ".net" indicates a subtle difference. While some people, > including Don, agreed in eventually having a debian-mentors pseudo > package that would be associated with the debian-mentors mailing list, > not with mentors.debian.net (i.e. Debexpo, the sofware running there). I am certainly aware of the difference. I was working with the perspective that mentors would need become an official (.org) service first. In my opinion, that should have happened a long time ago. > Hence I don't think any tight mentors.d.n integration of reportbug would > be appropriate for the time being. Then let's get mentors officialized to tear down this barrier! As an aside that's apropos to this topic, I wonder if the mentors terminology was the best choice. I feel like that term significantly favors the mentor side of the equation, and may explain part of why the service tends to make mentees feel unempowered; like they're very much at the whim of others completely out of their control who are more important. In my opinion a term like "contributors" would be much more empowering. It would better convey the fact that this is as a place for new contributors to work together, learn, evolve, and grow within the project. So, anyway, in the process of converting mentors to an official service, I wonder if we could debate the merit of using a better / more inviting terminology. I think this kind of transition would be the only chance to make this kind of change (I understand this idea is very much in dangerous bike shedding / yak shaving territory, but I think words/terminology have a significant impact, and we should do our best to get them right). > Also I am not particularly convinced > on the way you do it (content scraping). If you want, I will gratefully > merge a SOAP interface into Debexpo you could query though. I agree, I chose this approach since it's possible to implement right now; although it's certainly fragile (certain changes to the mentors pages will break the scraping algorithms). A soap based interface would be wonderful! Thanks again for all the work you've been putting into debexpo. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
