Monthly Reports

[Alan Bell]

On 27/07/10 15:30, Martin Owens wrote:
> Dear LoCo Council,
>
> <snip>
> We fail at making things easy and instead insist upon the manual and
> monotonous. A re-instance of monthly reports do not make them more
> appealing, they make running a LoCo a chore rather than good fun.
> <snip>
> Regards, Martin Owens
>   
I believe the missing information in this conversation is "what happens
to all these team reports?" do the wiki pages just sit there waiting for
random readers to go hunting for them? Well actually no, there is a
point to the terse format of them and the particular URLs they sit at.
As a reward for contributing in your little report you get to read the
big consolidated report with stuff from everyone in it. The June report
is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/June2010

It does the consolidation by a bit of moin wiki magic, which you can see
in the raw text of the page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/June2010?action=raw&rev=4

so it has lots of sections that look like this:

=== Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team ===
<<Include(UKTeam/TeamReports/10/June)>>

which goes and retrieves the relevant team report for the month and
includes it in the big report, which is why the report has to be placed
at a predictable URL on the wiki.

Alan.