Re: reportbug: support for mentors.debian.org pseudo package
Hi,
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:23:35 +0200 Arno Töll wrote:
> I appreciate your efforts and I like the idea of reportbug integration.
> I won't comment about the patch itself, I am not maintaining the
> reportbug package, so I can't judge.
Thanks for your kind words.
> However please note, mentors.debian.NET is not an official Debian
> project. The ".net" indicates a subtle difference. While some people,
> including Don, agreed in eventually having a debian-mentors pseudo
> package that would be associated with the debian-mentors mailing list,
> not with mentors.debian.net (i.e. Debexpo, the sofware running there).
I am certainly aware of the difference. I was working with the
perspective that mentors would need become an official (.org) service
first. In my opinion, that should have happened a long time ago.
> Hence I don't think any tight mentors.d.n integration of reportbug would
> be appropriate for the time being.
Then let's get mentors officialized to tear down this barrier!
As an aside that's apropos to this topic, I wonder if the mentors
terminology was the best choice. I feel like that term significantly
favors the mentor side of the equation, and may explain part of why the
service tends to make mentees feel unempowered; like they're very much
at the whim of others completely out of their control who are more
important.
In my opinion a term like "contributors" would be much more
empowering. It would better convey the fact that this is as a place
for new contributors to work together, learn, evolve, and grow within
the project.
So, anyway, in the process of converting mentors to an official
service, I wonder if we could debate the merit of using a better / more
inviting terminology. I think this kind of transition would be the only
chance to make this kind of change (I understand this idea is very much
in dangerous bike shedding / yak shaving territory, but I think
words/terminology have a significant impact, and we should do our best
to get them right).
> Also I am not particularly convinced
> on the way you do it (content scraping). If you want, I will gratefully
> merge a SOAP interface into Debexpo you could query though.
I agree, I chose this approach since it's possible to implement right
now; although it's certainly fragile (certain changes to the mentors
pages will break the scraping algorithms). A soap based interface
would be wonderful!
Thanks again for all the work you've been putting into debexpo.
Best wishes,
Mike
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