Drigg asks the Drigg community for help -- please read this!
Hello People,
As you know, I have been working tirelessly on Drigg. I released Issue 1 thinking that I would have a break after that... little did I know, that Drigg had countless little glitches which caused you people a lot of stress and a lot of work.
Some of them were pretty much impossible to predict. Some of them were plain silly.
Now... I need help. If you go here:
Now, I could do with some help. The problem is that a lot of requests were actually coming from people who had misconfigured Drigg. Those cases are really, really time consuming for me. I haven't written a single line of code over the last week, for this reason,
So... I changed the Bug Report page ( http://www.drigg-code.org/pages/bug_reports ), which now reads:
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1. Ask the Drigg community first in Drigg's forums.
A lot of questions can be answered in the forums, where community members help each other. Unless you are absolutely dead sure it's a bug, please ask your fellow members first. If nobody knows, then it's probably a bug.
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Basically, I would love to see the forums as the first step... if you guys can help people out, that's great. If you see that there's actually a problem, then you could either submit the bug for the user, or tell them to submit a bug confirming that there's probably one.
Do you think this would work?
Basically, I'd be delegating the initial contact with the problem. Once the problem is confirmed, you can either write precise instructions to reproduce it on a drigg-distr.tgz distro and submit it (I would love you for it!), or get the person to submit it.
A perfect example is this one: http://www.drigg-code.org/node/29 . Anybody with basic Drupal/Drigg knowledge should be able to answer it.
I hope the work I did for this module earned your trust and respect, and that you are able to help us out in this project.
Bye!
Merc.
Launching French community at Drigg.fr
Hi Merc,
After a few months not giving news from France but continuing playing with Drigg, I decided to launch a community site for the French Drupalers: http://drigg.fr
Main goals :
- French translation
- Support in French
- Explaining and illustrating what can be done with Drigg - beyong digg-like :-)
- and Hoping to produce alternative themes :-D
Do not hesitate to publish this URL on front page so French adopters can know about it and help me achieving these goals ;-)
It is brand new, so there is not much at the moment.
As a start, you can visit http://fichiers-marketing.com which will be one of my labs.
We have had already 2 DrupalCamp in Paris - so I will introduce Drigg in the next DrupalCampParis which will be taking place probably next October, maybe before.
Give me feedback when you have a little time.
Alexandre
PS: thanks for giving the choice not to use the URL field.
English Translation
I would be MORE than happy to help with documentation. I am an avid writer of all sorts of material, including short stories, a novel, articles for many blogs (http://www.babblin5.com http://www.leftofzen.com) have a few examples. As I learn more php, I will also begin helping with the task of answering questions in the forums, etc.
Cool!
Hi,
That's so nice to hear... THANK YOU!
Can you please send me an email?
merc followed by "at" and then mobily1.com
BYe!
Merc.
Drigg is Excellent!
It's obvious that a ton of work has gone into this project and I just wanted to say "thanks" for a project well done!
I know it can be thankless to work on these types of things and then immediately be hit with bug requests and feature requests.
keep up the good work on Drigg.
Thanks!
THANKS
Don't know where to say it: The is a very very cool cms! And there is a lot of web 2.0 (ajax, javascript) Keep up the good work dude
help offer
I can spend some time helping you with the documentation or whatever I can do to help. Please let me know.