On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Chris Johnston <chrisjohns...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Chris Johnston <chrisjohns...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I am curious as to the extent of the usage of 'Participation Essential' >> when subscribing blueprints. To my knowledge, the only thing that it is used >> for is for setting a participation status for a meeting at UDS or Linaro >> Connect. Is Participation Essential used in other ways or does it serve any >> purpose in Launchpad outside of its usage by Summit? >> >> The reason that I ask is I am wanting to change the wording to better >> reflect how it is used by Summit, if there is nothing else that would would >> be negatively effected by making changes. >> > > To further clarify what information I am looking for: > > In the past, Summit used the Participation Essential check box to determine > if someone was required to attend a meeting vs just wanted to attend the > meeting. As UDS continues to grow, this has started to cause problems with > being able to schedule meetings properly to allow the people who are truly > required to be at a meeting. One of the ways that we are working to solve > this is that in Summit, we are no longer taking Participation Essential as > required. In order to be required for a meeting, a user will have to be > added as required by either the meeting creator, a track lead, manager, or > event scheduler. We are now using Participation Essential from Launchpad as > a "very interested" category, and will attempt to adjust the schedule to > where both the Required set of people and the Very Interested set of people > will be available for the meeting. With this change, I would like to change > the wording for the Participation Essential check box to something that > better explains a "very interested in this topic" instead of saying that > someone is essential for this topic. > > Prior to making the change that I would like to make, I feel that I should > investigate the current usage of this checkbox to see if there is anything > else that uses it where the text change would negatively effect that usage. > Again, the changes I want to make are text only and related to the checkbox > for what is currently "Participation Essential" when subscribing to > blueprints. >
Some of us are chatting on IRC now about this, but for anyone else watching this thread, I'll note that the essential flag is just a boolean, used only by the summit system. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
