[Kde-women] Job database

[Eva Brucherseifer]

On Sunday 10 April 2005 00:29, C.M.Lotion wrote:
> Hi Anne-Marie, Ines and Lauri,
>
> Thanks a lot for your answers. Sorry for me answering late!
>
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 07:51, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > Hi Lauri,
> >
> > I see your point. However the Quality Team failed to turn with any
> > productive idea and last time I looked at the Junior Jobs bugs (I thought
> > I could work on some) I was appealed. One was to port KMail to KConfig XT
> > (89446). How Junior is that, I am not sure ;-)
> >
> :) so it's not just me
> :
> > Anyway it's all too complicated ad of course a database needs huge work.
>
> Yeah, that's why I was wondering about the kde-woman db. There were some
> suggestions for alternatives on the kde-www list, but what I like about
> bugs.kde.org is that it is a KDE-wide system, used and maintained.
>
> - divide et impera ? -
> I was thinking of providing custom "views" of the kde bug database to
> directly provide a configurable subset of the database content based on the
> product, something like when you select a product or run the wizard. Such a
> view can be embedded in the product's website, and be maintained by the
> product's active community with relevant extra information(kde-women,
> kde-webteam, kde-quality (check JJs) etc). Of course, bugs.kde.org should
> still be available and it would be the place were everything is put
> together.


I really like that idea!! bugs.kde.org has proven to work very well. Still 
it's size grows and grows and it's difficult to find things. 
Adding views and maybe special tags to it would be a great thing imho. To 
assign a tag to an already existing entry is easy to do. 

Greetings,
eva

>
> Benefits: easy access to file bugs, manage and maintain "bugs" database for
> kde teams and provide more meaningful representation/extra information.
> Drawbacks: view system needs to be developed and has to be easy to maintain
> so they will actually be maintained
>
> Actually, tasks/jobs database would be a better name than bugs database,
> since not only bugs are managed and it's more positive ;) .
>
> > For those who want to be involved in doing something, I suggest that the
> > first task would be to update women.kde.org and to think of new ideas to
> > keep it going.
> >
> :) I would like to get involved with kde-women, although the upcoming
> : week(s)
>
> I will not be available that much. Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Claire