On 15 May 2008, at 13:39, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Michal Bielicki wrote:
>
>> Just as a small request, would it be possible to do a really  
>> really  small fix that really improves understanding of community  
>> groups ? I  am not sure if that needs an OGB decision or whatever,  
>> but it can't be  technically a very tricky task. Al the Community  
>> Groups have an entry  for Leaders, which is basically totally  
>> misleading. THis term should  be replaced by "Editors" which  
>> basically this function displays, lists  and enables. I mean, as  
>> much as I sometimes feel like a leader in  advocacy, I am just an  
>> editor who adds certain kinds of pages and  tries to help with the  
>> housekeeping, and the word leader is very very  wrong for that  
>> function.
>> Just a simple thing I think could be fixed upfront and lead to  
>> some  deconfusion
>
> Coincidentally we were discussing this yesterday, see 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6600865 
> .  I also assumed it was going to be an easy fix - just an update to  
> some static text in a JSP, but when Martin looked at it it turned  
> out to be a significant amount of work.  The bug evaluation isn't  
> visible on BOO, but to paraphrase, the "leaders" link appears in the  
> sidebar as well as at the top of the page, and that's not static  
> text, it is held in the database, and the string "leaders" also  
> appears in the link paths, so the navigation mappings inside the  
> application would also need to be changed.  Finally the term  
> "leaders" appears in 310 page titles and in 2003 page bodies in the  
> site, each of those would have to be examined and corrected manually  
> if necessary.
>
> We are planning to replace the current portal entirely, so we will  
> fix it as part of that process, rather than spending resources on  
> something that is going away anyway.
>
> -- 
> Alan Burlison
> --


thx for the info. :)

Michal Bielicki
OpenSolaris Core Contributor
Software Porters Community Leader





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