There are some JIRA tickets similar to "Pull Requests" on GitHub for ODDR,
but even with a larger number of contributors, this may be a bit tedious.

I've pointed that out a few times, so fully agree here, a more
"interactive" way would be better.

Wikipedia once offered to "crawl" and collect UA data, not sure, if that
ever came and where it is now?
IMHO (not being a lawyer, but quite exposed to licensing stuff not just via
ODDR but even more around JCP, Eclipse, etc.) places that simply gather
User Agents without doing any processing (I believe there was at least one
site even offering some Web API for that) seem fine to use as sources. We
must not use any actual repository neither WURFL (beyond the point Bertrand
captured, but its structure is worthless now anyway and not compatible with
anything other than its propritary API) nor DeviceAtlas or others.

The initial "Open_DB" / OMA sources were OK, but I don't believe they are
still actively maintained either.

So we can

   - Gather raw User Agent Data and process it into the right format via
   some crawler/service
   - Offer a Web UI and/or Service for people to contribute that way. As
   long as they somehow confirm to own the data (either paper or online) that
   seems OK, it may be just the class of contributor that uses JIRA here. If
   they use a service that contributes THEIR User Agent and interprets it,
   then that seems fine, we may only need some security, Capcha, etc. to avoid
   abuse.

WDYT?

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:07 PM, eberhard speer jr. <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> hi,
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> I really don't think JIRA is the place for that.
> May have an alternative 'soon' if you don't mind that it's a .net site
> running here.
> But, JIRA is not good.
>
> With regard to the sources, those may prove of some value, I was
> thinking as more primary sources.
>
> I think we require a more permanent 'database' and build relations
> with various sources.
>
> esjr
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