Hi Philip,

On 07/04/10 15:50, Philip Chee wrote:
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:01:43 +0200, Brian King wrote:

One thing I noticed is that the AMO website development irc channel is
very active. Perhaps we can use that model to restart the mozdev website
maintenance and uplift process. 
I kind of find IRC awkward for exchanging information like this - if we could direct some of the people interested in this to this list the results might be more permanent. On top we could draw up any changes / additions on the mozdev wiki pages

( such as  http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/New-People)


No doubt many of the AMO developers are
paid contractors but having an active volunteer team with one or two
central gate-keepers rather than a bunch of formal "positions" where
each person is responsible for one particular area might encourage more
people to chip in if it appears to them that the barriers to entry are
relatively low.
  
agreed,  although it will be necessary to have some responsible Admin Personell with the necessary permissions to change stuff.
It might be good to move the actual mozdev site source code to something
more modern like SVN which would encourage people to download the code
and work on it. How complete is the wossname hovercraft package and how
easy is it for some vounteeer with some sysadmin experience to install
mozdev locally for testing purposes?
  
SVN sounds like a good system, google code uses it as well. And its easy enough so even I understand it. but lets not have pie in the sky maybe it should just be owned by the new people first because I fear are no resources left to pull it over. It wouldn't be good make a fresh start with a broken system.

 :)

Drupal: The problem is that this is fairly intimidating and the barriers
to entry are very high. Most of us however have experience running (or
at least moderating) a webforum running PHPbbs or Invision Powerboard.
  
Like I said before, is the main part of the site independent from drupal? (My impression was the forums were the main reasons for drupal) If this was a major stumbling block, I would suggest dropping the forums (or archiving them) with a view to replacing them with something easier - does anybody on this list have experience with forum administration or could come up with a simpler alternative?

The most important site parts, from a technical standpoint in order of precedence would be:
1 - Extension homepages (for linking from extension - about)
2 - Projects & Project Member Administration
3 - Bug Tracking
4 - Source Hosting (I would say this could be outsourced, if necessary)
...
...  (please insert missing items here ... )
...

5 - Forums (drupal?)
6 - Blogs (drupal?)
7 - Shop


I think we need to set up some Wiki Pages on Mozdev in order to get a full list of parts. I just leave this list here for you currently active Mozdev admins and Project owners to complete / discuss, this is just shooting from the hip, so apologies if I left out important things or got the order wrong..


Axel


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