Re: [Savannah-help-public] GNU help wanted (again)

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Karl,

I implemented "search by project type".
Can you have a look?
http://savannah.gnu.org/people/

All GNU-related jobs should be referenced here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/people/?type_id=1

-- 
Sylvain


On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:35:35PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:00:20 -0400
>     From: toby cabot <address@hidden>
> 
>     > karl:
>     > Glad to hear it.  Can you (or someone) work on this, please?  It's
>     > rather painful to point people from gnu.org to a "GNU task list" that
>     > has a lot of non-GNU projects.
> 
>     I can take a stab at it.  Ping me in a couple of weeks just to keep me
>     honest ;)
> 
> Coming up on the four-month anniversary of the original msg ... Any
> hope?  Can anyone else volunteer to work on this?  Once again, someone
> today asked me what GNU projects they could contribute to, and I had to
> explain the only place to look has zillions of non-GNU projects mixed in.
> 
> BTW, I realized today that my original msg was about showing only GNU
> jobs.  That's still the primary thing to work on, but another aspect of
> the same issue is showing *all* GNU jobs.  The goal is simple -- if
> someone wants to help GNU, have one place for them to look.
> 
> Now, I think there are at least two places to look:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/people/ and
> https://savannah.gnu.org/people/?group=tasklist ...
> 
> Thanks,
> Karl
> 
> 
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:49:57 +0200
> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> To: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>    address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] GNU help wanted (again)
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:29:46PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> [...]
> > We've discussed the possibility of having a "GNU help wanted" list on
> > savannah in the past (more than once).  It's come up again and rms said
> > he would like to make it a higher priority.  (Cc'ing rms so he can
> > confirm.)
> > 
> > It would seem to amount to a filter on http://savannah.gnu.org/people/
> > for just the GNU projects, plus http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist.
> > Are there architectural difficulties?  On the face of it, this does not
> > seem like a complex query.
> > 
> > I regret that I cannot undertake to implement it myself (despite your
> > giving me access, which I continue to appreciate).  Learning the ins and
> > outs of programming with this is just not something I can take on now.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's a matter of modifying 
> 
> www/people/index.php
> and
> www/includes/general.php
> 
> so that in addition to filtering by category, you can also filter by
> one or more project type (GNU, www.gnu.org portion, etc.).