On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 22:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > > >1) Boilerplate similar to POSTISOFFTOPIC but specifically for addressing > >issues to upstream. A group of volunteers to send the actual message > >whenever a post is off topic. Everyone else agrees to ignore off-topic > >posts. > > > > > Ok. This one is easy. Just register yourself in fedoraproject.org/wiki > and let me know your username offlist. I will add you to the edit group. > You can go ahead and create templates then. Not necessary -- I have all the rights to be able to do this. However, I won't have internet access starting tomorrow (and my time right now is extremely limited as we have to finish our packing/mailing/garbage/walk-thru/etc for moving today.) I can work on these locally and put something up in three weeks or so. I suggest it would be much better if someone else did this or came up with a better idea. > > >2) Start a project to package different default values for Extras. We > >have redhat-rpm-config changing rpm and fedora-release changing the > >config of yum. Maybe there should be a poweruser-gconf-tweaks. (More > >seriously, it should probably be more like config-nautilus-nonspatial, > >config-rpmbuild-userdirs, config-metacity-focusfollows, etc) this can > >work for things that just require default config changes but will not > >work for compilation/upstream code changes. > > > > > I would prefer people working on documenting these. A good desktop users > guide and "power" user FAQ's for Fedora which details out the common > changes such as these would be useful. I dont think installing different > packages for trivial changes such as these is really a good idea. What > if you install this package and then change the configuration to a > conflicting value? > Good idea! Let's make that #4: Fedora Guide to Power-User Tweaks. Are you volunteering to create and edit it? (I wasn't volunteering to head a project to create defaults, so you can say no to this as well.) > >3) Express interest in following upstream developments. Encourage the > >opening of bugzilla.redhat.com bugs with upstream bug #'s for these > >issues. There's no commitment to make changes, just a commitment to > >actively monitor what upstream has to say about the issue and if > >upstream commits to making a change, we'll do the same. > > > Oh. I just got flamed a couple of days back for telling people to report > bugs rather than rant on IRC channels and user lists. I am supposed to > be fixing bugzilla to be more end user friendly first. Dont ask me how. > I have no idea I think you should take a page from espdiff (in the patchutils package) and make a web form with a single button "Read my mind and figure out what bug I'm reporting. Then examine the programs on my computer and perform a binary patch to fix the bug." For extra credit, you could add a single checkbox "Go back in time and fix this bug before I experienced it" for use in Expert mode. -Toshio
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