Community Infrastructure

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Summary

Our current infrastructure (in general) has several problems:

• lack of integration between the various tools (bugzilla, users.o.o, Build Service, translations, ...)
• no social platform that would enable easier communication between users/members
• users.opensuse.org needs to be extended to make the membership approval process easier and faster
• no central identity/social platform for users, teams, groups, roles (wiki User: pages, users.o.o, forums)
• no developers from the community involved into developing/administrating that infrastructure

This page is a recipient to collect requirements, ideas and proposals (pretty much in that order) on how to approach and solve the above mentioned issues.

This effort will be driven by the openSUSE Board.

Requirements

Collect our needs first, in terms of functional requirements:

The following came as requirements/integrations needed in a meeting on #opensuse-project on 06/02/2009. Each of these area will need more definition around the exact requirements.

• Bugzilla
• OBS
• Hermes
• OpenFate
• users.o.o
• Testing application ?????
• Social networking features
• Wiki
• Groups
• Trust
• Workflow
• Communication (IRC, mailing lists, forums, etc)

Future Steps

Latter steps will include

• a broader discussion and collection of requirements and ideas on the opensuse-project mailinglist,
• a call for developers interested in joining the effort
• a discussion on the technical platform to use

Evaluation

Obvious candidates that should be evaluated include

• Launchpad, that is announced to be opensourced by Canonical in June 2009
• FedoraCommunity
• BuddyPress (see the experimental playground deployment at opensuse-community.com
• Drupal
• Kablink
• extend users.o.o (SVN repository)
• ...

Meetings Archive

June

• Collaboration Tools Meeting - Tuesday 2009/06/02