[newmaint-site] Announcement for contributors.debian.org ?

[Enrico Zini]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:16:21PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:

> I'm wondering if the contributors.debian.org effort has been publicized
> / announced enough on Debian lists. Unless I'm mistaken, I can't seem to
> find anything on -devel or -project, for instance.

Not mentioned yet, because the work on the site isnt finished.

> I'm also a bit unclear about the current ongoing efforts : is the
> nm.debian.org and contributors.debian.org meant to be the same app some
> day ? Is there any coordination with the PTS rewrite (also Django based)
> ?

They are two separate sites, and the pts rewrite is another separate
site: the three sites have different focuses: nm is to change status in
debian, pts is to track work on packages, dc is to track all
contributions with very coarse accuracy.

> While it's OK if volunteers organize themselves to work on improving our
> infrastructure (doocracy, etc.), and btw congrats for the good work
> ;-)... I'm a bit afraid interested parties may be a bit neglected if no
> one does promote the ongoing efforts...

Sorry about that. After Debconf we mostly focused on implementation
work.

> Now, to try and be really helpful, I'd like to try and help maybe in
> working on integrating some WebID support [0] and evaluating its use in
> order to provide some integration mechanism for various identities of
> people around Debian, which could be helpful, I think, in the context of
> contributors/nm/etc. For instance, I'm both obergix and olberger-guest,
> so a WebID profile I manage could help me inter-relate these two logins
> under the same contributor profile. Of course, WebID being based on RDF,
> I guess this could be helpful to bring in some semantic interoperability.

That is interesting, since DC is in the business of identity management.

> I've started playing a bit on Django for some feature (RDF views) of the
> PTS rewrite [1], so I hope I can again learn something along the way
> (Python <3).

In the DC model, you have identifiers (email, fingerprint, login, ...)
that people can connect to their django User model. At the moment, login
identifiers, @debian.org emails and @users.alioth.debian.org emails are
automatically connected, the rest needs some more work: some things
should be opt-in, some may need validation somehow.

> Looking forward to contributing to contributors somehow ;)

Welcome! Let me know if you need anything.

I'll be visiting Berlin for 10 days and I just got a chalk cast on my
left hand, but I'll try and do my best :)


Ciao,

Enrico

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