Call for testing: Ubuntu community volunteer board [UPDATE 1]

[Ian Weisser]

Still looking for testers and feedback.

1) No more git cloning. I finally found time to put it on my testing
server: http://kikwak.duckdns.org:8105/index.html to see the latest.
Easy!


2) Types of feedback sought, and types of help needed are unchanged (see
below). Easy *and* fast!


3) I think that an appropriately-formatted version would really improve
the http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/ page, instead of being
hosted separately at, say, whatcanidoforubuntu.com. It's better to
improve the pages we have.

I don't see any technical reason that requires the tool to be separate.
The tool data is contained within a <DIV> wrapper of the served page,
with appropriate HTML links to CSS and JS, just like any other content.

I don't see an administrative reason for the tool to be separate. Django
has great tools to limit some users' control over data to specific
pages. If two trusted community editors are granted edit access to the
page, IT won't get any help tickets to merely update the data.


Cheers,

-Ian




> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:43:34 -0600, I wrote
> 
> Okay, it's not a classic Job Board. But it's pretty cool nevertheless.
> 
> Thanks to a timely suggestion from bkerensa, I have skinned a nifty
> Mozilla tool for guiding new contributors through the labyrinth.
> 
> It's easy for users to navigate.
> It's easy to host (HTML/CSS/JS,nothing special)
> It's easy to maintain and update.
> It's easy for teams to specify roles they want to list.
> 
> Please take a couple minutes and look it over.
> https://github.com/ian-weisser/asknot
> 
> 
> 
> I'm looking for feedback from:
> 
> - The Ubuntu-community team: Will this work for a Job Board?
> 
> - The gatekeepers of community.ubuntu.com website. Next steps and
> approvals needed? Permissions or approvals for post-install maintenance
> and updates?
> 
> - Lots of Ubuntu Teams: What roles do you want to list here?
> 
> 
> 
> I'm also looking for a bit of technical help:
> 
> - (need) Proper design & layout help (in the CSS file) to match the rest
> of http://community.ubuntu.com/ website IAW
> https://design.ubuntu.com/brand .
> 
> - (optional) A bit of JS help to weed the legacy l10n JS out, and
> perhaps consolidate the three scripts down to one or two scripts.
> 
> 
> 
> Great example to try:
> Quality --> Triage Bugs --> QA Team wiki page to welcome new Bug
> Triagers.
> The QA Team built four wiki pages, each to welcome one new role.
> Creating a path to each role is easy.
> If your team wants to get the most from this tool, consider building
> similar wiki pages for each role you want to advertise.
> 
> 
> 
> How to provide feedback:
> Feel free to e-mail me directly,
> or post to the Ubuntu-community-team list,
> or push your git branch.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -Ian