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[Steven M. Parrish]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 08/18/2009 05:51 PM, Steven M. Parrish wrote:
> 
>>>> What I am looking to do now is create a very simplified bugzilla
>>>> interface that can be used by OLPC users, mostly children, to report
>>>> issues with Sugar
>>>> Activities in Fedora.  Will develop in PHP and would like to develop
>>>> and test it on one of the publictest servers.
>>>>
>>>> Also would like to help maintain the cvs servers and projects contained
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Any questions just ask.
>>>>
>>> Is this intended to be deployed onto Fedora Infrastructure boxes
>>> eventually or just be developed/demoed on the publictest infrastructure?
>>>  We haven't had development of known-non-Fedora stuff done previously
>>> but this might be a valid first case.  If it's intended to run on Fedora
>>> Infrastructure, we very much prefer developing them in python.  In fact,
>>> I don't think we have any non-python developed stuff.
>>>
>>> -Toshio
>> 
>> It is intended to run on Fedora infrastructure.  It is going to be an
>> alternate front end to our current bugzilla instance.  It could be built
>> upon to create different front ends for other user groups as well.
>> 
>> Developing it in Python will not be a problem.  I am just in the
>> beginning design stage atm.
> 
> Very interesting. A related project
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Desktop_Client
> 
> Rahul

Sounds like we both have similar goals here.  I think having both a OS based 
app and a simple web interface for our bugreporting is a great idea.  

Anything that makes it easier for normal users to report issues and give 
feedback will only lead to making Fedora a more user friendly distro.

Steven

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