Re: web-howtohelp

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 23:14, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Somebody ( https://twitter.com/#!/nilsluxton ) asked me >> after my >> recent comment ( >> >> http://epixa.com/2011/08/how-php-is-broken-and-how-it-can-be-fixed#comment-2271 >> ) that how could he help with the web related stuff. >> I know that we have >> https://wiki.php.net/web/redesign/howtohelp for >> the php.net redesign, but I think maybe it would be useful to create a >> wikipage for the web related tasks that we wanted to do, but lacking >> the resource. >> For example we talked about adding improving the spamfilter on >> bugs.php.net, or the long awaited pecl.php.net refactor/rewrite (if I >> remember correctly Pierre needed some sitebuild assistance there), >> maybe finishing up people.php.net, a little help on edit.php.net, etc. >> So I created a dummy page, >> https://wiki.php.net/web/howtohelp feel >> free to edit and add the tasks that you would like to see implemented. > > > Gooooowd I hate wikis. But good idea. > For the past decade the bugtracker has served this purpose with > feature ideas and bug reports, but I guess things change. > Please make sure these pages are linked from somewhere, otherwise they > just get lost and we create 50 instances of the same page over and > over again. > I added it to https://wiki.php.net/web - and linked the > redesign > howtohelp page too (which apparently wasn't there either *sigh*, > sorry!). > > -Hannes > Thanks Hannes, I forgot to link it too :/ I think that keeping the bugreports/feature requests would be better on bugsweb, but that would require a little bit more work(creating the issues, with the proper components). I will do it if I can find some time for it on the weekend. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu