Who is the audience for this?  Will this be a tool used only by developers
and node/site administrators or will it be meant to be accessible and used
by anyone who might sign up to participate (in any role) at any individual
node?

I would include in the possible audiences:
1A. Node Administrators
2A. Developers (to report problems or request helps from other developers)
3A. Anyone signing up on a node (this makes for a big audience, of course
they all arent going to use the helpdesk if everything is well designed)

In the same vein, what exactly is it that we are supporting?  I would
guess this will include:

1B. Node setup/configuration
2B. Node customization
3B. RSS aggregation problems
4B. Enhancement Requests to MetaDean
5B. Bug Reports to MetaDean

6B.... What about things like the "frontroom".  Presumably, someone could
have a problem with signing up...is all of that meant to come to one
technical help desk?

There are a lot of projects here, many of which are apparently modules to
a bigger project, but some that appear less connected.  I think the
answers to your questions in defining the fields in the help desk system
depend on who it is that is going to utilize and benefit from this.

Sorry if I'm getting off-track or making this too complicated, but I'm
still trying to get a grasp on the big picture here and if we're planning
support for one tool and one small audience...or something larger?

A lot of my background is in software support and IT/deskside
support....hopefully I can help with more direct answers to your questions
once I understand more of who/what we're targeting.

Thanks,
Steven

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moshe Weitzman wrote:

> Folks - I have the Drupal project.module running at
> http://dean.sourceforge.net/project and at http://dean.tejasa.com. But
> it hasn't been configured at all for our purposes. Please don't panic
> yet about its design or functionality.
>
> I'd like some suggestions about what our data set looks like. Let's
> start by looking at the drupal.org projects at
> http://drupal.org/project. There you will see:
>
> 4 projects entitled "Contributions", "Drupal", etc
> 3 item types - Bugs, Features, Tasks
>
> Now browse to http://drupal.org/project/update/2305. Scroll to the form
> at bottom of the page. You see:
>
> Areas
> Versions
> 'Assigned To' list
>
> I can configure all of these fields, but need help on what the right
> terms and areas and such are for us.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Reply via email to