Re: PHP Profiles (profiles.php.net)?

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:30, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > >>>> I'd like to create a public profile listing of all php.net accounts, >>>> and host it on 'http://profiles.php.net'. >>>> The idea, to start with, is just to aggregate various information >>>> about the accounts from master, pear, pecl, ohloh (not implemented >>>> yet), github.. >>>> >>>> Screenshot: http://imagebin.org/46757 >>>> Code: http://pastebin.com/m391f328b > > Cool idea! Now, some boring comments: > > We would likely need to offer users the ability to disable this page and Yeah, I was hoping we could have it opt-out, rather then opt-in, as imo our names+emails should be public (and are, in the archives :)) > optionally request information from users to more efficiently pull data from > these other resources like for example an email address (or username/id) > used on github and/or ohloh. Sounds reasonable. > If we are to keep the "Notes" entry (for nostalgia purposes) we should > rename it to something like "Reason given when requesting this user account" > and include the date. Speaking of dates, the web interface was created on > "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:40:54 -0700" so people who were added before that time > incorrectly have that date. So, if we are going to display the date then we > would need to fix them by using the avail file in CVSROOT as a guide > otherwise it's a lie. This applies to ~300 people. But what for the people > who existed before CVS and mailing lists? Not exactly sure but there aren't > many of those :) Gah.. I don't think the date matters so much.. but I guess we could write some script to blame avail and check the first entry for given usernames.. > Also, we may as well start discussing how far this will go. Will we add > optional fields like "Website" (a link to users blog), "About Me" (a bio), > etc. kinda like the pecl.php.net and pear.php.net profile pages do > currently? KISS is nice too so if this proposal is to start small with only > aggregate information then that's fine but growth is something people should > also think about. I was thinking, start small (as it is now) and then incrementally add "features" like you mention, and eventually maybe end up with something like Google Profiles - although we would try to aggregate most of it, rather then needing to maintain the info ourselves. >> As you can see in the screenshot, I originally 'called it' >> peoples.php.net, but since the idea behind people.php.net was >> different I decided to rather suggest profiles. > > I don't think the current people.php.net idea is set in stone and instead > see it as a random idea that was never fully implemented or worried about. > Seems to me the two ideas can be merged into people.php.net. Fair enough. -Hannes