That was an idea I was mulling over. In Trac, we have different templates for tickets, so we could add a new one for this purpose, I'm sure. On May 3, 2014 7:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Touching on the "community feedback system". Is worth having a ticket > submitted to get a project added to the "To Review" list? I'm thinking of > some kind of custom link to a ticket submission that pre-fills some of the > fields to set it apart from the regular tickets. (I haven't yet had a > chance to check out the ticket-entering side of things, but I'm kinda > assuming that it's a browser-centric process.) > > ======================================================================= > John M. Troan <[email protected]> > Maintainer: Football Site @ JT-SW.com > http://www.jt-sw.com/football > Chief of Computer Operations > U.S.S. Kitty Hawk / NCC-1659 > ======================================================================= > > > [email protected] wrote on 05/03/2014 > 11:49:58: > > > Bill Wood <[email protected]> > > Sent by: [email protected] > > > > 05/03/2014 11:50 > > > > Please respond to > > Fedora Infrastructure <[email protected]> > > > > To > > > > Fedora Infrastructure <[email protected]>, > > > > cc > > > > Subject > > > > Re: Fedora Hosted Project Guidelines (Ticket #847) > > > > These are very good points, Pierre! I figured these questions would > > come up at some point. > > > > If you go and look through the list of packages on fedorahosted.org, > > you'll notice a lot of "Welcome to Trac!" homepages. The ones that > > were changed from that are usually very sparse in words, and don't > > do a good job of describing what the package is or does. It took me > > a very long time to find the three examples that I put in the doc. > > Just looking through the site can prove my point there. > > > For the checks, I'm thinking about ways to automate it. We would > > really just need to crawl the database and look for specific things. > > Maybe we also set up a community feedback system where users can > > tell us if there's not enough content (kind of like Google Play, but > > not broken beyond repair) so that we can go in and take a look at > > what's wrong. The goal is to have as little work to physically do > > while keeping the site useful, and that has been my mindset through > > this process. > > > > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:01:57PM -0500, Bill Wood wrote: > > > I've been thinking about a few ways we can clean up > fedorahosted.organd, > > > after talking with Kevin, I think I've got a good enough draft to > let you > > > guys give any input you might have. I've pasted the draft at > > > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/98687/ > > > This was an interesting reading, but I have some questions regarding it: > > > > > good bit of the projects on fedorahosted.org are not documented at > all > by > > > their creators. Some haven't been updated in years and are > > > probably abandoned. > > > > Do we have any information on this? Is this based on a "gut feeling"or on > some > > actual data? > > > > > We archive projects that do not meet specific checks > > > > So these would be automated or manual checks? If the later, we'll > > need to figure > > out a mechanism for a project to move back to the list of active project > no? > > > > The text you present here are meant to be placed on the FAQ? Or on the > page > > presenting how we qualify project has been active or not? > > > > Basically the idea sounds fine but I am a bit wondering how big it is and > how > > easy it would be to automate (because I don't think we would want > > manual checks). > > > > > > What's your thoughts? :) > > > > > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > > infrastructure mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > > _______________________________________________ > > infrastructure mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
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