On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? It is database driven. So entering data and presenting them don't need wiki edits. >> 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. Currently, we don't or can't do that because it is so much manual work. > >> 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? We have to disable/enable each form using puppet. We have to do it each month. it will not be possible. >> 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 Do you follow the freemedia list? If not, please have a look at the archive. I didn't do this for fun. > Perhaps I don't understand what this app does? If you're tracking vendors > why not just use a spreadsheet or something? And how do we present the data to the requesters? -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
