I have experience in forum administration.Probably we can try phpbb, that's easier to understand and modify.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Axel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > -- Cheers Anirvana Mishra
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