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Am 23.03.2011 07:30, schrieb Brian Dolbec: |
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> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 01:09 +0100, Michael Seifert wrote: |
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>> Sorry, if I caused any inconvenience. |
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> No, no inconvenience. If I have stomped on your toes, I did not mean |
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> to, If you have other ideas about this project, by all means get them |
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> out. :) |
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The point is that I also think that a web interface would be the best |
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solution. It is just not quite what I am looking for and there already |
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seemed to be efforts on organizing the mentoring. That is the reason why |
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I would like to discuss a second idea. I did not feel stomped on my |
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toes, it just all went a bit too fast :) |
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You have been very helpful and responsive. Please keep it up! |
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>> For the thouroughness of the discussion and out of personal interest: |
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>> The webapp should most likely integrate nicely on the gentoo website. |
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>> What CMS does gentoo.org use and what CMS would you suggest to an applicant? |
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> Well, as I've stated, I don't have experience in developing webapps, so |
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> I can't recommend anything to you. I think this type of info would be |
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> used most by devs. While users may use it, I think the primary goal is |
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> to collect data to help the devs decide where to put more of their |
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> efforts, and help streamline the stabilization process. For the most |
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> part the gentoo sites use guide xml, which is a custom xslt |
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> transformation... I don't think this type of tool would fit well with |
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> the semi static nature of gentoo's web pages using guide xml. Also this |
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> data would most likely be on a different server than the gentoo.org |
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> site. |
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I personally would make use of zope as a CMS. For those who don't know |
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it: It supports scripting in restricted Python, a very nice templating |
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language, and an easy to use database (Zope Object Database). ZODB is an |
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object database that uses Python's pickle module for serialization. What |
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are your thoughts about a NOSQL database? |
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> I suggested a webapp as means of primary interaction because it is |
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> easily run in a browser, so no special software needs to be installed. |
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> It is just the one one program. That opens it up to all users. |
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> But a gui could be developed to get the data from the database and |
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> display the reports, graphs, etc.. be it gtk , kde/Qt, or whatever. |
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> That's where the powers that be need to chime in with their comments and |
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> thoughts of the direction they would like to see it take. |
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> All my comments are my own and not to be considered as absolute (my way |
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> or the highway ;). |
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