Hello, with my "CD vendor list editor" hat on:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:25:31PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > >> ========================================= > >> About "Who's using Debian" and CD Vendors > >> ========================================= > >> > >> It would be possible to have a very minimal system to take > >> care of those submissions, I think it would help a lot people doing > >> this job to keep track of what was already included and what still > >> needs to be done, the system could even send e-mails to -www-cvs. > > > > Having an automatic tool would certainly speed up the time into getting this > > information into the site. There is already a template, so enforcing it > > would > > be simple. > > > >> Could it be written in PHP/Perl using a sqlite database? > > > > Yes, why not. It would not be able to be hosted at www.debian.org, but > > we could point people to an application at say, submissions.debian.net > > or submit.debian.org, which would be a standalone server (no mirrors) > > and take where dynamic applications could be hosted. The current system was implemented by Josip recently, and is a big improvement over the previous state: On <http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding-form>, CD vendors fill out the form, the results are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in a standard format. This means that we have to copy & paste the entries into the webwml/english/CD/vendors.CD file in CVS, *manually* sort the list, double-check everything works as expected... Finally, the auto-generated mail needs to be replied to, to inform the vendor about his being added. A CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is necessary to avoid duplication of effort, which increases the amount of mail to be handled by everybody. Wishlist: - entries can be approved for addition to the vendors list with a single click on a web page - sending an email to the submitter is done with another click. Optionally, I can add a comment, e.g. why I'm *not* adding the entry. A default text "you have been added" is supplied by default - I can leave private comments on why I'm unsure whether to add the entry, only readable by other DDs - I need not periodically poll a web application for new entries, but get a mail e.g. once a day which reminds me that new entries are awaiting approval. IMHO, we should not re-invent the wheel here, but use a standard RT system like bugzilla. You only need to implement the part which takes the supplied information and puts it on the web pages somehow. *BUT* actually I'm not /that/ unhappy with the current system. The number of submissions is usually fairly low, only now, after the release, the is a certain surge of new submissions. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
