From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2JkJ-0000lo-DJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:48:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 444721C007; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFE3B1C007 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2011 08:48:32 -0000 Received: from p549BC0D5.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [10.0.0.7]) [84.155.192.213] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 23 Mar 2011 09:48:32 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1855979 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/YLQ17P9XYbd0Z6nMAN06QH2N7ZPo078UusiGye8 305pMwOhgeDxQQ Message-ID: <4D89B3E1.5020301@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:48:33 +0100 From: Michael Seifert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110321 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC - Package statistics References: <4D87E1AC.1030201@gmx.net> <1300755118.31104.110.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <820e13d818f9b5f7452706ff566c7563@basementcode.com> <1300769995.31104.137.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <4D893A42.7020308@gmx.net> <1300861806.31104.172.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> In-Reply-To: <1300861806.31104.172.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 164e15d873acdbd47633ccdbf524a17c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.03.2011 07:30, schrieb Brian Dolbec: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 01:09 +0100, Michael Seifert wrote: >> Sorry, if I caused any inconvenience. > > No, no inconvenience. If I have stomped on your toes, I did not mean > to, If you have other ideas about this project, by all means get them > out. :) > The point is that I also think that a web interface would be the best solution. It is just not quite what I am looking for and there already seemed to be efforts on organizing the mentoring. That is the reason why I would like to discuss a second idea. I did not feel stomped on my toes, it just all went a bit too fast :) You have been very helpful and responsive. Please keep it up! > >> >> For the thouroughness of the discussion and out of personal interest: >> The webapp should most likely integrate nicely on the gentoo website. >> What CMS does gentoo.org use and what CMS would you suggest to an applicant? > > Well, as I've stated, I don't have experience in developing webapps, so > I can't recommend anything to you. I think this type of info would be > used most by devs. While users may use it, I think the primary goal is > to collect data to help the devs decide where to put more of their > efforts, and help streamline the stabilization process. For the most > part the gentoo sites use guide xml, which is a custom xslt > transformation... I don't think this type of tool would fit well with > the semi static nature of gentoo's web pages using guide xml. Also this > data would most likely be on a different server than the gentoo.org > site. > I personally would make use of zope as a CMS. For those who don't know it: It supports scripting in restricted Python, a very nice templating language, and an easy to use database (Zope Object Database). ZODB is an object database that uses Python's pickle module for serialization. What are your thoughts about a NOSQL database? > > I suggested a webapp as means of primary interaction because it is > easily run in a browser, so no special software needs to be installed. > It is just the one one program. That opens it up to all users. > > But a gui could be developed to get the data from the database and > display the reports, graphs, etc.. be it gtk , kde/Qt, or whatever. > That's where the powers that be need to chime in with their comments and > thoughts of the direction they would like to see it take. > > > All my comments are my own and not to be considered as absolute (my way > or the highway ;). > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2Js+EACgkQnzX+Jf4GTUxuUACeLsJ85YGFEvm6YzmzjGHUvEAI BosAoJntQgZjtTHlY8sxt7zXqDE0niln =3ixC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----