Fwd: Re: Helping to improve advertising of test days and other things

[Arnav Kalra]

Would it be possible for me to edit someone else's results in the wiki?
If yes then we need to have a system for authentication. The reason why
smolt came to my mind was because they have a system for authentication.
When I send my profile using smolt it makes a blank page on the website
which contains the template for results. If I want to edit it I use smolt
on my system to generate a key which I input into that page. This allows me
to edit it and makes sure that only the person with that installation can
edit it.
We can do something similar for testing. For each boot a page can be
created automatically  and the person who is testing is allowed to edit it.
To avoid duplicate entries we can allow a person to link all those
authentication keys or pages with his fedora account.
Is this viable?
On Aug 23, 2012 11:07 AM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2012-08-22 19:18, Arnav Kalra wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can try making a simple SQL database in which people post
>> their results. It should have different tables for different test
>> days. This would allow you to easily sort the data and would not be
>> very difficult to implement.
>>
>> The advertisement part is easy to do but I think your main problem is
>> collection of data and making that data easily accessible to users.
>>
>
> It...really isn't that simple, unfortunately. I wrote an overview a few
> days back on devel@, so I'll just link to that:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.**org/pipermail/devel/2012-July/**170437.html<https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-July/170437.html>
>
> The 'edit your results into a wiki table' approach certainly isn't the
> perfect answer to managing test day results, but making it better is a more
> complex problem than it might appear. In practice, I don't think it's
> something that's a massive dampener on people's willingness to participate
> in test days, though we don't really have any evidence either way on that,
> so it all comes down to gut feeling...
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