Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Craig Maloney <craig at decafbad.net> wrote:
> * Martin Owens (doctormo at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +0000, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
>> > some teams prefer to use their own tools.
>>
>> A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant
>> feedback. Not council meditation. I'm sure the council would make a lot
>> more detailed and accurate reporting, but that's not to say there
>> couldn't be some automation too.
>
> Please pardon the thread hijack, but this touches on a desire I've had
> to allow teams to use the LTP in place of team reports during their
> approval (or whatever it will be called) process. I'd love to have one
> place where our team information (events, meetings, photos, etc) get
> reported to the council and any other interested parties.
>
> I'm already entering these into the system once, but as it stands I have
> to re-enter them again into a team report via a wiki.
>
> Hoping the LTP can take a more center stage in our community, and the
> duplication of effort can go by the wayside.

I would really like to see this too, the current bug to add this
functionality is here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-team-portal/+bug/605651

Unfortunately community member Adnane Belmadiaf is pretty much the
sole developer of the LTP at this point and while he does have another
release on the horizon (yay!) it doesn't handle a large number of
wishlist items. He's mostly working hard on bug fixes and other things
essential to keeping it running well.

So as a completely community-driven effort, I would encourage people
who would like to see this functionality to reach out to their teams
to see if there is anyone with Django skills and time to assist Adnane
in this work. I wrote a blog post a few months back about how to get a
development environment set up in a VM:
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6662 (and folks in #ubuntu-website
can help if there is anything about these instructions that are
out-dated).

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Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
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