I really need to post my thoughts more often. I shall endeavour to do so…
Just posting my thoughts (very random) about what I could do using a WordPress site to facilitate a software project, discussion and community… Some item’s follow…
Categories for the WordPress site could include.
| What | Description | Page or Category in WordPress. Who can post. |
| Learn More | brochure pages (restricted to Admin only post) | Page. Admin only. |
| Blog | wordpress posts (restricted to Admin only post, show on front page) | Category. Admin only. |
| Request Features | uservoice, ideatorrent (vote up/down a FR) | Category. All. |
| Discuss | stackoverflow style, anyone can post (reputations / badges) | Category. All. |
| Help | stack overflow (mark as correct answer, reputations / badges) | Category. All. |
| Bugs | stack overflow (reputations / badges) + other fields – status (new, verified, fixed, duplicate) | Category. All. |
| Documentation | like CodeIgniter or PHP manual style, user comments/additions to each page + versioned (reputations / badges) | Category. Admin only start page, then All can comment. |
| F.A.Q | wordpress posts (restricted to Admin only post) | Category. Admin only. |
| Example Reports | for submission by users and download (reputations / badges) | Category. All to submit – Admin to approve. |
| Example Groups | for submission by users and download (reputations / badges) | Category. All to submit – Admin to approve. |
| ChangeLogs | auto generated from Bazaar commits | Page. Admin only. |
| Download | releases, trunk | Page. Admin only. |
| Demo | installed demo version of OAv2 | Page. Admin only. |
| Statistics | accept “in OAv2″ report of how many and what types of devices (anonymise data before submission. Need to code this into OAv2). Show stats. | Page. Admin only. |
Logon using OpenID (hopefully to hamper Spammers)
Askimet – again, for the spammers.
Users can post only when two previous posts approved.
How to enable the existing members to approve a post ? Set a minimum approved post count, before someone can approve other posts ? How to ?
WordPress to role “member” means people can register (using OpenID) and then post articles that can only appear in certain categories (Help/ Support, General Discussion).
If anyone would like to donate to help hosting / domain name costs, we accept them via PayPal.
I’m trying out WordPress with OpenID and Akismet to see if it’s a better platform than phpBB3. The damn spammers have ruined the Open-AudIT.org board…
