This has definitely crossed my mind to do as a plugin before. Pictographs of some kind in ticket comments and the timeline (be it gravatar based or otherwise) would be very nice. My "to-write" list w.r.t. Trac plugins has been getting rather long lately, but if someone is looking for pointers I can certainly whip up a first pass fairly quickly.
--Noah On Sep 10, 2007, at 8:24 PM, jason wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am one of the people behind ohloh.net. We're huge fans of trac - we > use it internally. Personally, I often gauge a project's maturity by > seeing if they use trac or not. > > I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you. As you know, trac is > where people involved in open source often mingle. While browsing > tickets or wiki changes on trac sites, I often find myself trying to > discover (or remember) who people "are". It occurred to me that ohloh > already has a general concept of people's open source "identity" - > what they contribute to, their experience, what they use, who they > like, etc... > > Wouldn't it make sense to integrate the trac tool with the ohloh > identities? > > There are a few ways we could integrate. My favorite is a lightweight > method where trac could use ohloh as a "gravatar"-like service - where > trac could decorate a user's name/email with a small, tasteful badge > showing basic ohloh stats. > > Deeper integration could be made at several levels - by showing ohloh > "metrics" per commit or enabling "stacking" or "kudos" inline to > integrating tickets or wiki edits as ohloh "data sources", etc... - > but I'd like to start with something more simple. > > What do you guys think - am I nuts or is this compelling to you too? > Or do you have different ideas on how we could integrate? Any feedback > is very much appreciated. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
