[Sugar-devel] Mockup for collab.sugarlabs.org

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:20:30PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:22:55PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Collab_mockup
> > 
> > I see that you are pointing to Ubuntu's "brainstorm", which has a huge
> > overlap with the wiki-ish "blueprints" and tasks/bugs as tracked in
> > launchpad/malone.
> 
> it was just a possible way to go
> 
> > Comparing Ubuntu's brainstorm with their own use of
> > blueprints+bugtracker, the blueprints+bugtracker win big time.
> > Brainstorm takes a lot of page / screen real state for very few
> > "tasks", and the quality of discussion/interaction isn't very high.
> > 
> > Maybe a better "path" for users to get into the wikipages that Walter
> > mentioned (Feature Request, etc) would work?
> 
> well, as was mentioned in this thread, collab.sl.o is not intended to do
> something unique(but maybe unique view), everything could be done reusing
> existed infrastructure.
> 
> The problem with existed methods could be costs of supporting, keeping in
> mind casual and decentralized sugar nature. Well other FOSS projects
> have these issues as well but do we have many community coordinators who
> will, on regular bases, track various sources like dozen of wiki pages
> (on several servers), dozen emails(on several servers) to coordinate all
> these efforts. Also collab.sl.o is not intended to be organisation
> driven portal but community driven. For example OLPC could have more
> effective ways to treat all these issues due to having administrative
> resources, collab.sl.o could give community replacement of OLPC's
> administrative resource.

maybe I wasn't enough clear, tools like wiki are to common, e.g. why
people use bugs tracker instead of wiki or mls.

> Another possible issue is not friendly to non-tech and casual sugar
> users, with collab.sl.o's requester mode, it could be more useful for
> people who lacks of some feature and wants to: expose this, track
> progress of implementation w/o UI which encumbered with many development
> related components. Possible analogy is wiki.laptop.org vs. ASLO.
> 
> -- 
> Aleksey

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Aleksey