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 _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
