I really like the idea. It would get the community involved in making Keryx more useful to more people.
Only trouble is it looks like something that could take a lot of coding time, which is something we don't have in excess. Perhaps we could have a temporary implementation of this using the forum. We could open a new forum section with a sticky explaining how to submit profiles. Reviews could simply be replies on a profile thread, and moderator approval could be given by adding something to the thread title. That would save us the time necessary to build a new website. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Chris Oliver <exc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had this idea and wanted to gauge interest in it. Right now it's quite a > pain for us to create new profiles. Not always do us as developers upgrade > to the latest Ubuntu, and we certainly do not have copies of every version > or other distros like Debian and Linux Mint. > Taking this into consideration, I would like to propose a profile submission > site for the Keryx community. The site would be simply as follows: > - Give an example of how to create a new profile for common distros (this > can be applied indirectly to other apt based distros) > - Provide default profiles for other people to use > - Allow users to submit their own profiles so that people do not have to > wait on us developers to post them > - Votes can be cast upon submitted profiles along with comments regarding > them. This allows the community to keep track of which profiles possibly > were incorrectly created and we could avoid them > Keryx 1.1 could provide download access to "verified" profiles from its > interface. After a profile has gotten good reviews or has been verified by a > moderator, it would be put on a list that would show up in the Keryx home > tab. This way we can make sure to keep a high level of quality for profiles > while still letting the community help us out doing things. > What do you think? I hope I explained the idea clearly enough but feel free > to ask questions because I'm sure I missed something important that I wanted > to convey. > (Cross posted to the blog) > -- > Chris Oliver > http://excid3.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx > Post to : keryx@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~keryx Post to : keryx@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~keryx More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
