hi Shivanand, You might like to work on https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18599.It addresses your issues.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Shivanand Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW while we have the role assignments done, can we have a start page for > the new volunteers? This would be solely for the induction purpose. The > following points come to my mind (and I wasn't able to locate this in the > documentation sorry if I overlooked some): > > 1. I'm a new volunteer and I can do <role>. Where do I start? > 2. Who is the contact person/team to mentor/advise me? > 3. Do we have an IRC channel? > 4. What kind of permissions (authentication) do I need to administer > the site. > 5. Who gives me the permissions to the site. > 6. What is mozdev (CMS)? How is it maintained (we'd need to break this > one into quite a few pages)? > 7. How to make new announcements/pages/etc. > > > Regards > Shivanand Sharma > > > On 30 April 2010 19:02, anirvana mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I was checking bugzilla for the open bugs in the current website, but >> shockingly there are no open bugs.Can anyone from the current management >> tell me what are things to be done with the website? Any enhancement to be >> introduced ? >> bta who's porting the current repository from CVS to SVN or Hg? >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Jake Hartz <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I would love to try phpbb, I used it with my old site (before I moved to >>> mozdev) and I liked it very much. I think it would work better than Drupal >>> for sites that want just a forum without the wiki and blog, and it has >>> better forum tools than what Drupal currently provides. Also, I think more >>> people have experience with administering it and it isn't too hard to learn. >>> (Although I'm not saying we should kick out Drupal yet - it is pretty cool >>> to have a hosting site that offers an entire content management system.) >>> >>> Also: I am a supporter of SVN over CVS and I would love to help if we >>> begin testing it on mozdev. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jake >>> >>> >>> On 4/7/2010 1:12 PM, anirvana mishra wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Project_owners mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Anirvana Mishra >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Project_owners mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > -- Cheers Anirvana Mishra
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