[RFR] Infrastructure sponsor needed for Fedora Distribution App.

[susmit shannigrahi]

Let me be clear first.

I am not much concerned about what admins do. I am more concerned
about how easy we make it for the "customer" when he requests media.

>> > How is maintaining it in an app going to be so much easier then
>> > maintaining it in the wiki?
>>
>> It is database driven. So entering data and presenting them don't need
>> wiki edits.
>>
>
> scripts.


>> >> 2. It is a pain to maintain the wiki list and verify each and every
>> >> vendor. We plan to notify each vendor upon a new release. We also want
>> >> to let them have an account so that they can update their accounts
>> >> themselves.
>> >
>> > You still have to verify vendors and notify them.
>> Currently, we don't or can't do that because it is so much manual work.
> Scripts.

What is the difference between writing a script and maintaining that
and writing an simple app and maintaining that?

>> >
>> >> 3. Currently, in freemedia, we open the form for a day or two and
>> >> close it for the rest of the month. This creates a problem for us. We
>> >> want to keep the form opened for NA for a longer time, EMEA for lesser
>> >> time and so on. In this app, there is a python-sqlite wrapper around
>> >> trac which enables us to differentiate between the regions and
>> >> close/open the form for a region on demand.
>> >
>> > Why not have multiple forms?
>>
>> We have to disable/enable each form using puppet. We have to do it each month.
>> it will not be possible.
>>
>
> Of course it would be.  You write a script to generate your pages, change
> a 1 to a 0.

But I don't have time, not energy to login to puppet every time
someone tells me to do the changes. So will puppet access be given to
current freemedia admins so that they can run the scripts?

>> > why not just use a spreadsheet or something?
>>
>> And how do we present the data to the requesters?
>
> how do you do it now?

Wiki. And requesters have to go through the long list of hundreds of
links. That is not the ideal way, is it?


I saw some thread that we were worried about actually losing our
users. One of the reasons for that low offline availability. It is not
that Fedora is not available offline. It is. But the information is
presented so clumsily that nobody uses that option.



-- 
Regards,
Susmit.

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