Re: [gnome-love] OpenHatch.org indexing "gnome-love" bugs, and other ways to get new people involved

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh openhatch org>]

Excerpts from Murray Cumming's message of Fri Apr 23 08:19:47 +0000 2010:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 04:32 +0000, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > > Clearly we should let project contributors tell us the language of
> > > their project so we don't just call it "Unknown". (We do try to query
> > > ohloh.net for the project language, but it's not super reliable.)
> > >
> > > We'll work on that.
> >
> > http://openhatch.org/+projects/Glom now shows the project's language and
> > an "edit" box for changing it, if necessary.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I also notice:
> - The list of bugs is outdated. It shows at least one bug that was fixed
> over a week ago. I noticed this before. It's the main thing stopping me
> from recommending the site. I can imagine that it takes lots of
> processing and querying to keep it up to date.

But that's all automated. So the automation must be broken. I'll take a
look into that.

> - The list of suitable bugs, which I think is most important, is not
> obvious enough, for instance from here:
> http://openhatch.org/+projects/Glom

Good point!

> - The link to the actual bug is not obvious enough when clicking on an
> item, for instance from here:
> http://openhatch.org/search/?q=Glom
> "link" is too generic a name for a link.

Interesting point there.

We'll fix the first and think about the second two and keep you posted.

-- Asheesh.

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