Brainstorming Session for Fedora Community 2.0 - Monday August 3, 2009 - 1500 UTC
by Tom Callaway
For those of you who haven't no idea what "Fedora Community" is, its our
newest Fedora web application, providing a window into the Fedora
distribution, and leveraging the power of Fedora's Account System,
Bodhi, Bugzilla, Koji, and PackageDB into a single user-friendly
website. It is built entirely with Free Software, such as Moksha and
Turbogears 2. Fedora Community is designed to simplify Fedora workflows
and bring transparency to Fedora processes:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community
What you see on that URL is our 1.0 milestone, but we already have lots
of ideas on improvements and new functionality that we'd like to develop
for our 2.0 release. So, we're going to have a public brainstorming
session on Monday, August 3rd, 2009:
* The session will be held at 1500 UTC (11 AM Eastern)
(In addition, if there are enough interested international folks who
cannot attend the session due to their timezone, please let me know, and
we will try to schedule a future session that works for you)
We're going to use a variety of ways to be involved:
* IRC: #moksha on irc.freenode.net (we'll be watching and taking
questions from the channel)
* Gobby: We're going to keep our notes in Gobby, an open source
collaboration tool.
The name of our document is "Fedora Community Brainstorm", see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/GobbyHowTo for information on
how to connect
* Telephone: This is where we'll be doing the talking.
US Toll-Free: 800-451-8679
Conference Code: 22717 79826
(If you need an international dial-in number, please email me with your
country, and I may be able to provide it.)
Please be kind and mute your line if you're not asking a question. If
the noise on the call becomes unbearable, I will mute everyone. :)
Questions about the meeting? Email me. Questions about Fedora Community
2.0? Come to the brainstorming session! Can't make it to the session and
want to suggest something? Login to Gobby and add it to our notes before
the session.
Thanks,
Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Community Cat Herder
14 years, 8 months
Fedora Community Feedback So Far
by Máirín Duffy
Hey folks,
I've gotten a lot of positive feedback about Fedora Community so far
which is great! However there are a couple issues I also heard about so
I wanted to share them here so we could maybe figure out how to address
them.
If you've heard any other issues from users let's discuss and figure out
how to address them:
Complaints:
* Dan Walsh encountered a super-broken GNOME in Rawhide. He wanted to
use Fedora Community to see what gnome* packages had been built in
rawhide that week to see if any fixes might be pending. He was unable to
do this. There are few problems here:
** Koji doesn't let us filter packages based on release, but we can do
this for updates. We should definitely focus on fixing this discrepancy.
At the least then, Dan could have gotten a list of recent builds
filtered for things built into Rawhide.
** We don't have any regexp or freeform text filtering for the grids at
all. This would have allowed Dan to filter *gnome* builds.
* Michael Dehaan brought these points up, I haven't quite digested them
yet I just copy/pasted the IRC log from #fedora-admin a couple days ago:
** "I'm wondering what an unpushed update is. i.e. I'm logged in, I've
built stuff, but I see nothing in the updates tab. I would suspect to be
able to see builds and somehow click on them to "push" them."
** "It would be nice if the push page was ajaxy and didn't take me to
bodhi web - i.e. click on a build and it just appears under "updates' in
the other tab."
** "++9 million for having sorting work, though, great. nm, not sorted
yet :("
* I've heard a couple of people complaining that our pagination "sucks".
Not sure about all the issues there yet but I think this would
definitely be improved with grid freeform text filtering. I think I want
to do a few usability tests on the pagination to identify some specific
problems as well.
~m
14 years, 8 months
ToscaWidgets2
by Luke Macken
So, the ToscaWidget guys are working on v2.0, which is supposed to solve
a lot of design problems, and also provide a serious speed boost.
http://toscawidgets.org/documentation/tw2.core
I know J5 has expressed some issues that he has had with the TW1.0 API,
so this is our chance help improve the next-generation of ToscaWidgets.
I also stepped up to help maintain tw2.jquery as well, so I've got a few
ideas of new things I want to try there too.
Hop on the toscawidgets-discuss mailing list, or #toscawidgets on
freenode if you would like to provide some feedback.
luke
14 years, 8 months
Brainstorming...
by Luke Macken
I just started a `Fedora Community Brainstorm` file in Gobby[0]. We're
going to be planning multiple public brainstorming meeting in the very
near future, so I decided to dump some of my notes into it now.
So, let the ideas flow, and many more discussions will occur next week.
luke
[0]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/GobbyHowTo
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