Hello, (joining late to the discussion, adding few tidbits)
1. Regarding "outdated" posts: It might surprise you (it definitely surprised me) that some of these posts you consider "outdated" are not outdated at all. They are old, that's true - but not outdated. In fact, I personally contacted many submitters, and many of them insisted that their posts remain as-is, even if they have been unchanged for years. Many also refused to update or refresh their posts. You can read a bit more about our attempts here: sr #106581: doing something about stale jobs? https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106581 2. Regarding "automated removal": At the time of the discussion (see link above), automatic removal was frowned upon. There was a suggestion to manually contact posters and ask if the post is still relevant, and if so update it. From my humble experience with administrating savannah - I *highly* recommend against anything that requires manual work. If you do implement a new "help wanted" website - have an automated way to expire posts. Of course, you might want to have a more sophisticated mechanism to send email alerts about coming expirations, etc. - but that's more complicated to implement. Anything that requires manual work (and requires volunteers' time) will quickly become a chore. 3. > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 01:38:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Also the >> Savane web interface has been suffering from a lack of volunteers for >> updates for some time. Therefore I can see the attraction of setting >> up an independent site for this information. On one hand, if there are volunteers out there that want to improve the "help wanted" pages - why not hack directly on the savannah interface? we always welcome more hackers, and the best place to start is here: https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/RunningSavaneLocally/ https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHackingIdeas/ On the other hand, starting from scratch is usually more fun (and you won't be bound by FSF policies). > Practically speaking, how easy would it be to extract just the 'help > wanted' section of Savane and modify it to have the improvements I > mentioned earlier (ie. expiring posts and such)? If you want a database-dump of the relevant tables - that's easy. Contact write to us at [email protected] and we can find a way to make it work. When you write "modify it" - do you mean the PHP code? The links above are the best place to start to hack on the PHP code. Alternatively, There's also an attempt to write python/flask code to view the savannah database - eventually it'll include the "help wanted" pages as well: https://varanusex.housegordon.org Lastly (and this is only my personal opinion and is not necessarily shared with other savannah hackers or FSF): I'm fully supportive of moving savannah's "Help Wanted" section elsewhere, and removing it from savannah. regards, - assaf
