[maemo-developers] [Meego-community] Fw: Proposal: MeeGo User Experience Framework working group

[From: Sivan Greenberg]

Good point.

I was thinking of writing something from scratch, but not quite.  so I
happen to also be a member of the Plone community (I happen to be *the* QA
team) and a good friend[4] of mine has done a lot of work on a repoze.bfg[3]
application called Karl[0], for the OSI in Budapest. Essentially a knowledge
base system I am hoping to adopt to our needs for the user-story tracker.

Of course, in the meanwhile, we could always use Trac[1] that has excellent
integration with various revision control systems around, and link between
user-stories to commits or bug reports in the Bugzilla. And of course there
is Launchpad which is now open source and could be utilized for that as it
also offers some integration and linkage between questions, specifications,
bugs and FAQs. However, given Trac's description I would say it's the tool
for the job for now, until we can make something of our own or work it out
to suite our emerging needs as they come in.

I am quite proficient with setup and admin of Trac , and would be happy to
contribute my experience to setting it up for the community's use.

Sivan

[0]: http://karlproject.org/
[1]: http://trac.edgewall.org/
     A relevant paragraph from its website:
*Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating
links and seamless references between* bugs, tasks, changesets, files and
wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events in order,
making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking progress
very easy. The roadmap shows the road ahead, listing the upcoming
milestones.
[2]: https://answers.launchpad.net/
<https://answers.launchpad.net/>[3]: http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.2/
[4]: http://plone.org/author/ree
<http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.2/>
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Warren Baird <wjbaird at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Randall,
>>
>>  I am thinking along the line of something like a sort of "expert"
>> system, a web ui, that offers bug/problem domains to the user to
>> choose from. Then according to the problem domains a set of question
>> are presented for the user to answer with minimum free text. And so on
>> and forth. We could even have something like this on the device, as a
>> complementary test-case or use-case to validate against a fix when it
>> is out.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Sivan
>>
>
> Hi Sivan,
>
> That definitely sounds great...   However, I must admit that I've used
these
> systems a few times - last time was reporting an ubuntu bug...  And I
> generally didn't find them too useful - they didn't really help identify
the
> problem I was having though...
>
> I don't think the issue was with the approach, but rather with the
> implementation - maybe their 'expert' system wasn't quite expert enough.
I
> guess the question is do you have your eye on an existing system out there
> to re-use, or is this intended to be completely new development?
>
> Warren
>
>
> --
> Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist
> http://www.synergisticimages.ca
>
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