Thanks to Behdad, Guilherme and the sysadmin team yesterday tavon and Devin got ssh accounts and permissions to tweak the Drupal site and the /guadec-drupal directory where it lives in the 'window' server. This means we have 2 people experienced in Drupal, PHP and MySQL in charge of the GUADEC website, allowing me to step aside from the command line, an environment where I still have so much to learn. Both had admin permissions in the Drupal web interface, so they have the same permissions as I have and they can sove much more things since they have the knowledge to do so. tavion, now you are officially the main responsible of the technical aspects of the website. tavon used already his ssh access to solve some bugs that had been submitted yesterday (thanks to the early submitters if you are reading these lines!). Devin is supposed to upload today the first version of the online registration tool, he will explain the details. Devin, do you have a bugzilla account? If so, please provide ID. If not, please register. We are going to fill bugs against the registration tool unless you deliver somethign perfect (which I doubt because the requirements I wrote have already some parts that are obsolete like the accommodation related fields). :/ tavon, thank you for your great work dealing with bugs in bugzilla. In the first night you have solved lots of things. Just one comment from the GNOME marketing side. Although there is nothing wrong in just fixing bugs without further comments, it is recommended to say thank you to the person who reported the bug and if only a couple of lines explaining something about the fix. This is not needed if the bug submitter is someone like me, used to be around bugzilla and talking to you on a regular basis anyway. But new users reporting a bug maybe for the first time, like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334636 , or experienced GNOME developers starting to offer interest in our GUADEC site like Lucas Rocha do deserve such comments. This way it is clear that the GUADEC team is grateful with their help and we encourage them to invest more time with us and submit more bugs / feature requests. Bugzilla is known to be one of the main points of contact between GNOME developers and users, and if you browse out there you will see that one of the main complaints / FUD about GNOME is how "arrogant" etc GNOME developers are, seen from the outside. Well, now you have a GNOME bugzilla account and a ssh account to a GNOME server. You are a GNOME developer and what you say and the way you behave can be perceived as what GNOME says and how GNOME behaves. Hey, nothing severe and, in fact, something normal in your first GNOME contributor days. I just wanted to warn/advise. :) -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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