Replace Device Wishlist wiki page with organization repository
As you know, there is a page on wiki where people may list devices they want to be ported. The idea behind it is good, but in fact the page itself is almost useless for following reasons:
- no way to notify user about the status of requested port;
- most of the entries are "outdated" (meaning there is most likely zero interest from requesters by now).
I suggest to create a new repository in organization and use its issue tracker to receive requests.
Pros:
- discussion for each device;
- standardized requests with templates;
- possible interaction with requester (notifying, receiving feedback);
- may use flairs to mark the state of device;
- ability to close requests with pmaports commit/MR messages;
- ability to auto-close issues based on time of requester's inactivity.
Cons:
- may require more maintenance;
- requires gitlab/github/google account to login.
Activity
I'm not sure I see the benefit of having such a page at all. We don't port on request, ports are made by the people who want to see them themselves. If people have devices that they want ported but they can't port themselves then they should consider sending it to a willing developer. Then again I'm also not a fan of having devices without a developer to test them so if those devices should be send back to the owner then we have ports laying around without proper maintainership. Only in case of a fully mainline (not close-to) this would be acceptable imo...
By Bart Ribbers on 2021-03-15T15:58:09
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I think the gitlab org would work much better than the page. But I'm also not sure if there would be any benefit at all, it might just be that people fill issues for device requests, and they never get answered. But then again, it might work, and it would be nice for people to get a ping that their once requested device is now ported.
So all in all, I don't think it would hurt to try it out. Setting up the gitlab repository and writing instructions in the wiki is not much effort. I'll put this on the agenda for the next team meeting (next month) to get some more input.
By Oliver Smith on 2021-03-21T12:43:19
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