On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, susmit shannigrahi wrote: > Description/Summary: This application will integrate all the different > methods of offline fedora distribution. This will also address several > issues that came up while operating the freemedia and distribution > project. This will make finding or managing the vendors easy. Lastly, > it will replace the existing freemedia front-end and make filing > ticket a one step process. > > > Project plan (Detailed): > 1. Currently we keep the vendor list in the wiki.[1][2] These are hard > to maintain. And it is also hard for people to find out a suitable > vendor. The proposed app is geoip aware one which returns the most > appropriate results based on location. This will reduce the load on > freemedia as there are vendors who offer the disk from less than > half-a-dollar. How is maintaining it in an app going to be so much easier then maintaining it in the wiki? > 2. It is a pain to maintain the wiki list and verify each and every > vendor. We plan to notify each vendor upon a new release. We also want > to let them have an account so that they can update their accounts > themselves. You still have to verify vendors and notify them. > 3. Currently, in freemedia, we open the form for a day or two and > close it for the rest of the month. This creates a problem for us. We > want to keep the form opened for NA for a longer time, EMEA for lesser > time and so on. In this app, there is a python-sqlite wrapper around > trac which enables us to differentiate between the regions and > close/open the form for a region on demand. Why not have multiple forms? > 4. There are countries which have their own freemedia program (brazil > for example). They want us to redirect requesters to their sites. > Currently, we need to add a redirect manually everytime we want to do > that. We also address it here. > > Should you need more info, please let me know. > > Goals: Integrate all the offline sources of fedora. And present them > to the uses in a > neat and convenient way. > I get that building websites is fun and all but I just don't see why we would host this. This seems completely a workflow issue. You're still entering in and validating data either way. Perhaps I don't understand what this app does? If you're tracking vendors why not just use a spreadsheet or something? -Mike _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
