Re: [Tracker] Using gnome.org infrastructure for tracker

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:48 -0500, Peter Vander Klippe wrote:
> >         Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:22:59 +0100
> >         From: Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
> >         Subject: [Tracker] Using gnome.org infrastructure for tracker
> >         development
> >         To: Tracker List tracker-list gnome org
> >         
> >         Tracker, you know, is yet using the GNOME cvs for development
> >         and this 
> >         mailing list.
> >         
> >         There are other facilities that we could use, we should use.
> >         
> >         ### GNOME Bugzilla ###
> >         
> >         We really need a bugzilla entry to track bugs, patches,
> >         suggestions and
> >         other. Do it on mailing list is good, but bugzilla is better.
> >  
> > Yes! Please setup the bugzilla entry. We also need a few people to
> > triage bugs to sort through the duplicates and such.
>
> Yes, this needs to be setup majorly bad! This is super high priority.
> Hopefully several of us can be made admins to help with admin'ing it and
> also to setup new products, categories, etc...also we need to make sure
> there is a category for feature requests, which isn't always clear on
> bugzilla...

 I will do this today!

> >         http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ForMaintainers explains how to
> >         ask for a 
> >         bugzilla entry. Simply, you have to add a bug report under
> >         "bugzilla.gnome.org". I could file it, but maybe is better let
> >         Jamie, as
> >         brave project leader and maintainer, do it. 
> >         
> >         Of course the product name in bugzilla database will be
> >         "tracker", as
> >         the cvs module, but we should define also some components. I
> >         think we
> >         need at least:
> >              * general
> >              * doc/documentation/help 
> >              * indexers
> >              * database/trackerd (?)
> >              * console tools
> >              * GUI search tool
> >         
> >         But we need a webpage so...
> >         
> >         ### Project Webpage ###
> >         
> >         As suggested in the link in the previous page, if a project
> >         uses GNOME 
> >         CVS it should have a webpage under
> >         http://www.gnome.org/projects/
> >         
> >         I think we should use this space to put all info and needed
> >         stuff; the
> >         www.tracker-project.org domain could link here, no need to buy
> >         webhosting space.
> >         
> >         All the info how to add a project webpage under
> >         http://www.gnome.org/projects/   are in the README file in
> >         http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/www.gnome.org/projects/
> >         
> >         Anyone with webmastering-fu to build it?
> >  
> > Again, we need this. I did the initial design for the current tracker
> > homepage (www.gnome.org/~jamiecc/tracker/) but I did it in php and I
> > don't think the gnome servers handle php, so I exported into html
> > (firefox -> save page as), but now its a huge mess of outdated static
> > pages. 
> >  
> > Lets have a contest or something. We really need a decent, up-to-date
> > webpage.
>
> Oh, I can do this...no contests please... ;) I will set it up pretty
> like and use wordpress so we can edit it effectively...I've done this
> often (check my latest, http://overlap.org) I will just port over your
> design and then we can change over time...

great but does any software need to be installed? That will be a problem 
 as its using gnmome.org for hosting.

if its in http://www.gnome.org/projects/ (which is in gnome cvs) then 
you guys can send patches to edit stuff (just as if it was source code)


--
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/