You misunderstand the point, and as mentioned in last month's report, this web interface isn't primarily for *committers*, it is for another class of " *contributors*", e.g. Eclipse Foundation just increased the lines of code that can simply be contributed by Gerrit (a mechanism to provide/approve change and pull-requests via Git, in theory we could also explore Git as opposed to SVN to improve participation) without being a full committer.
I don't know if this class of contributor exists as Apache, but it is comparable to someone who files a bug in JIRA and may also attach something (anywhere from screenshot to an actual patch) but patch files sound cumbersome and would require effort similar to what I do with OpenDDR so far. Take some pull-requests in the OpenDDR repo, which only a small number of people there can process. That's why updates happen fewer now or may even stop. Something we should avoid, but the key is to allow a wider audience to make "casual contributions" without having to use SVN or install an IDE. If you want a Web-based IDE, doesn't matter what you call it, the key is, that people ON mobile devices could contribute device signatures either manually or semi-automatic (via some experimental Cordova/DeviceMap ideas we had earlier[?]) Werner On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Reza, > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Reza <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2) create a website which allows user agents to be tested and new > devices to be submitted... > > Ok, I see, and yes that's what I was asking for. > > Who among our committers would be using such a website to actually > test devices and submit missing ones? > > Who would be willing to look at incoming missing User-Agents to > enhance DeviceMap's database? > > I'm asking so as to gauge interest and try to find out if the project > becomes viable with that. > > -Bertrand >
