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From: Alec Warner <antarus@×××××××××××.com> |
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Date: May 11, 2007 10:50 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Increasing contributions and interest via |
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personal project aggregation |
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To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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On 5/8/07, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm sure I'm not the only one with a number of projects I'll never get |
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> to, but I'd really like them to happen anyway. I suggest we create some |
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> sort of page that aggregates all of these personal projects together, so |
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> anyone can browse through them and look for stuff that sounds fun. |
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> The goal is to increase contributions from outside by giving them a |
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> ready list of projects of all sizes and difficulty levels to work on, |
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> projects that go beyond what happens at Bugday. Further, it could also |
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> help current Gentoo developers who are bored or have lost interest in |
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> what they're doing by helping them to find somewhere new to contribute. |
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> A prototype with just my projects is at |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/proj/ |
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> Thanks for your comments! |
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> Donnie |
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I expect to have this implemented by next week. |
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The premise is each dev writes some ideas down in |
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~/public_html/ideas.xml, yes it's xml, cry me a river. It makes it really |
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easy to transform in a nice shiny webpage for people to view. |
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A sample entry is at |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/ideas/ideas.xml?passthru=1 |
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Postprocessed it would look something like: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~antarus/ideas/ideas-index.xml |
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I have a script that will basically combine everyones idea.xml file |
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into 1 big index that will get copied to the webnodes (just like |
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devaway) and get served there. |
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Things that need to be finished: |
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Finalize the xsl for the transform, make the html less ugly. |
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Finalize the ideas.dtd |
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Confirm that CVS is a bad place for ideas.xml files |
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Finish up the cronjob and bribe someone in infra to turn it on |
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Give the xsl and dtd's to Neysx and bribe him to commit them to cvs. |
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Maybe write some xsl to do blog-like pager stuff if we get a lot of |
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ideas (too many to fit on a single page). |
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The dtd and a custom guide.xsl are also in my webspace in the ideas/ |
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directory, if anyone is interested in looking. |
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-Alec |
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