[webdev] Re: bug reporting

[Clint A Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

Thats a very good point, we should emphasise the AC (air capital) part
of ACLUG, instead of trying to become a resource for all Linux users
become a resource of and for our users. 

Discussion notes of past presentations, logs of meeting pictures from
events. These would be good things to be the focus of the website.




On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:28, Zack Clobes wrote:
> My question for you is what is the purpose of the site?
> 
> It's been my experience that if a small group/organization is trying to
> compete with the resources of a long established website, you'll probably be
> wasting your time unless you have some trick up your sleeve.  For example, I
> use the RedHat distro and so I always start at the RedHat.com website when I
> have a problem because their knowledge base is thick enough to solve my
> problem most of the time.  I don't want to go looking through the knowledge
> base from a dozen different LUG's around the country to find the answer.
> 
> The same things goes in the way of a user forum - why are people from around
> the world going to suddenly start using your website?  Are you going to be
> advertising it other Linux sites?  Will you be doing a weekly give-away of
> some piece of computer equipment?  Again, why would I ask a question for a
> dozen people to answer when I can ask it of hundreds or thousands?
> 
> 
> My recommendation would be to start small and begin documenting everything
> the group does.  Document presentations, allow people (like myself) to
> document a particular project that I've been working on such as SAMBA or
> Evolution.  The other thing that I've noticed the ACLUG site severely
> lacking it is information about the group.  It is very difficult to
> ascertain when and where the club meetings are to be held, and what is on
> the agenda.  Member photos could be helpful, especially to new members.
> 
> That's my two cents...
> Zack Clobes
> Hutchinson
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hull [mailto:thull2@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:12 PM
> To: webdev@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [webdev] bug reporting
> 
> 
> Just looking at the aclug.org website: I notice that the links at
> the bottom of the page for "Report Bugs", "Tasks", "Developers"
> actually link to sourceforge.net. These are probably defaults,
> but I don't see any need for them on our website -- indeed, they
> would probably just confuse the postnuke developers if we used
> them.
> 
> On the other hand, we do need some sort of a system to direct
> changes/development of the aclug.org website, such as Bugzilla,
> which James Violette had set up for the previous openacs-based
> website. Could someone look into setting this up? One thing
> that I think should be a requirement would be to enforce
> compatible user ids for both systems (postnuke and bugzilla),
> so that users only have to sign up once and cookie info from
> postnuke could be used to log into bugzilla.
> 
> BTW, response to my last posting has been underwhelming. Is
> anyone out there?