Fedora Hosted Project Guidelines (Ticket #847)

Bill Wood bwood at simbox.io
Sun May 4 00:53:50 UTC 2014


That was an idea I was mulling over. In Trac, we have different templates
for tickets, so we could add a new one for this purpose, I'm sure.
On May 3, 2014 7:45 PM, <jtroan at jt-sw.com> wrote:

> Touching on the "community feedback system".  Is worth having a ticket
> submitted to get a project added to the "To Review" list?   I'm thinking of
> some kind of custom link to a ticket submission that pre-fills some of the
> fields to set it apart from the regular tickets.   (I haven't yet had a
> chance to check out the ticket-entering side of things, but I'm kinda
> assuming that it's a browser-centric process.)
>
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> infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote on 05/03/2014
> 11:49:58:
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> > Bill Wood <bwood at simbox.io>
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> > 05/03/2014 11:50
> >
> > Please respond to
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> > Subject
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> > Re: Fedora Hosted Project Guidelines (Ticket #847)
> >
> > These are very good points, Pierre! I figured these questions would
> > come up at some point.
> >
> > If you go and look through the list of packages on fedorahosted.org,
> > you'll notice a lot of "Welcome to Trac!" homepages. The ones that
> > were changed from that are usually very sparse in words, and don't
> > do a good job of describing what the package is or does. It took me
> > a very long time to find the three examples that I put in the doc.
> > Just looking through the site can prove my point there.
>
> > For the checks, I'm thinking about ways to automate it. We would
> > really just need to crawl the database and look for specific things.
> > Maybe we also set up a community feedback system where users can
> > tell us if there's not enough content (kind of like Google Play, but
> > not broken beyond repair) so that we can go in and take a look at
> > what's wrong. The goal is to have as little work to physically do
> > while keeping the site useful, and that has been my mindset through
> > this process.
> >
>
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr
> > > wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:01:57PM -0500, Bill Wood wrote:
> > >    I've been thinking about a few ways we can clean up
> fedorahosted.organd,
> > >    after talking with Kevin, I think I've got a good enough draft to
> let you
> > >    guys give any input you might have. I've pasted the draft at
> > >    http://paste.fedoraproject.org/98687/
>
> > This was an interesting reading, but I have some questions regarding it:
> >
> > >  good bit of the projects on fedorahosted.org are not documented at
> all
> by
> > >  their creators. Some haven't been updated in years and are
> > >  probably abandoned.
> >
> > Do we have any information on this? Is this based on a "gut feeling"or on
> some
> > actual data?
> >
> > > We archive projects that do not meet specific checks
> >
> > So these would be automated or manual checks? If the later, we'll
> > need to figure
> > out a mechanism for a project to move back to the list of active project
> no?
> >
> > The text you present here are meant to be placed on the FAQ? Or on the
> page
> > presenting how we qualify project has been active or not?
> >
> > Basically the idea sounds fine but I am a bit wondering how big it is and
> how
> > easy it would be to automate (because I don't think we would want
> > manual checks).
> >
> >
> > What's your thoughts? :)
> >
> >
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