Open Up Certification Site
Why, what, and how we open up portions of the certification site to third-parties (including the community).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Henrik Nilsen Omma
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- David Murphy
Whiteboard
***Marking as Obsolete/Deferred since this has never been touched.***
Expanding Testing to the Community
Cert site can be generalized into a result tracking site
We should consider naming conventions; keep "certification" for only commercial certifications and have another name for user testing (under the ubuntu.com domain)
==== Cert Site Pros ====
* ACLs already present
* OpenID integration
* Makes extremely good (and visible) use of the Checkbox data that is being submitted to Launchpad
* Increases visibility of Checkbox (more users and more tests)
==== Cert Site Cons ====
* ISO tracker is very focused and good for what it is; cert site doesn't currently support all use cases
* For the short term (at least) we should not look to expand the cert site to be a general result tracking system; focus on tracking hardware information
==== Proposal ====
* First step, open up the cert site as it is
* allow community to see public results but not private
* need a way to mark basically anything as private... must be sure to not leak information
* Second step, generalize and allow incoming test results
* used for 1st phase triaging before filing bugs
* bugs can be filed with a click of a button... w00t
* use OpenID info on submitter to decide what to certify
* do we want to visually indicate that some submissions were done by specific people (e.g. Canonical employees)?
* Should we allow comments, workarounds, etc.?
* could be useful to community
* might link automatically to an external source (e.g. wiki) for discussion or info
* We should have a weighting system of some sort -- a way to distinguinsh certified hardware from community-tested hardware
Current Laptop Testing Team's site:
https:/
==== Action Items ====
* Discuss wiki of hardware comments, etc. with documentation team (Marc Tardif)
* Have a driver for this to get approval (Marc Tardif or Ronald McCollam)
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We'll defer this to the more general results tracker development -- heno
