On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 05:08 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:16 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > http://blog.sethdot.org/index.cgi/263.html > > As one of the people who has been the 'person' in this conversation, > please allow me to publicly back your position. You are perfectly > correct. > > But ... > > We have been laboring for months without needed functionality on > fedoraproject.org > > _If_ there is an end in site, then great. But I want to know that our > RFEs are not going to sink into a blackhole. > > Obviously, you have been a one-person show, which explains much of this. > > So, I'm going to pledge my efforts to find you more resources, probably > from within Red Hat. They can work in Python, put up a Python-based > CMS, add functionality to Moin Moin, and support whatever packages into > FE that we need. > If I can do that, can you, Seth, as the fp.o Chief SA, and to everyone > else on this list, make this pledge: to make these additional functions > a high priority? Provide status updates on when they can be completed? > Give us some chances to work with beta versions? Etc. Yes. And as we did with the buildsystem systems those people who are willing to be security-minded and consistent with their application of that should and will have access to all aspects of the system. > Here is a quick list: > > * Two-way editing of XML in CVS using the Wiki. > * CMS back-end to allow us to have: > - More writers and editors of content using a workflow that forces > approval before content can be posted. > - More Web-based functionality to attract contributors, without > compromising on the extreme value of having all in XML > * The ability to do more automagic with aggregation and building of > content on the fly (RSS feeding into XML templates, or whatever) I was contacted by the lead of the django project (djangoproject.com) as a result of my rant in my blog. He's a fedora user and he says he's interested in helping out. Django is one of the python web toolkits that is rapidly advancing up the stack of things. I responded to him to join this list and let's start figuring out what to implement. -sv
