Tnx Anirvana. ( Just for my own information - the correct link to the bug is https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18599 )
Regards Shivanand Sharma On 30 April 2010 23:33, anirvana mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > >
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