Prevalent Not-Invented-Here syndrome on web interfaces

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Our mentors are continually running into issues and missing features on a scale 
that we could 
easily populate this tracker with veritably hundreds of bugs and feature 
requests.  I would 
implore/request that more feature-filled interfaces be used for the web 
interface, especially 
those that are more in the "support open source" route by using open source 
yourselves.

Web application projects/products like trak, mediawiki, bugzilla, gforge, 
custom drupal modules, 
etc etc would make for an exceedingly more productive interface than what is in 
place.  Please 
take the criticism in good spirit, we are rather just trying to help and voice 
an opinion regarding 
what seems to be one of the more prevalent problems that everyone has to deal 
with all in 
response to what seems to be a massive NIH security/stability/customization 
justification.  
Rather classic reinvention reasons, no matter how you slice it.

In spite of facing retribution for making our opinions heard .. :-) .. the 
existing interfaces and 
access to information are painfully cumbersome to use, *excessively* immature 
in their features, 
and are a complete (lacking) reimplementation of interfaces that are 
prevalently available.  Even if 
there are concerns with any of them, which is FUD claim in itself (heck, if 
Sourceforge can 
support millions of users and thousands or projects..), that same effort could 
have been invested 
to review/fix/improve those same codes instead of reimplementing basic features.

While I doubt my single voice will make any headway in swaying your opinions on 
the matter, I 
felt it necessary to be stated given the overall state of the "Home", 
"Downloads", "Wiki", "Issues", 
mentor/student app interfaces, and more.

Sincerely,
Sean

Original issue reported on code.google.com by brl...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2007 at 7:10

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i am afraid, i have to totally agree completely. E.g. another thing i found
exceedingly annoying was the need to create another email to register as a
mentor, because it was not possible to cancel the registration as a student
on my main email.
Let's hope that for next year we can use more standard tools.

Original comment by rizzo-...@prova.iet.unipi.it on 27 Mar 2007 at 8:14

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Sean, I am not sure why you'd assume that making your opinion heard would cause
retribution of any kind.  That's certainly not the kind of community we're 
building.
 Your concerns are noted.

Original comment by LHospo@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2007 at 2:44

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Leslie,

That particular comment was half-in-jest and not intended with really much 
purpose other than to alleviate 
the impact of the (brutal) honest summation that followed.  As stated, it's 
hopefully criticism taken in good 
spirit and I appreciate the feedback and receptiveness.  We hope to see this 
community be built up as well, 
not to mention continued participation for year(s) to come.  Thanks again for 
the hard work and long hours 
your team has been putting in.

Cheers!
Sean

Original comment by brl...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2007 at 1:44

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This sort of 'bug' really belongs in a long, drawn out, annoying discussion on 
the
mailing list. 

Original comment by cdibona on 29 Mar 2007 at 12:27

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Also, changing bug statuses. These issues are unlikely to be addressed in
non-geologic time.

Original comment by cdibona on 29 Mar 2007 at 12:28

• Added labels: Milestone-2008, Priority-Low, Type-Other
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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I was just thinking that Google code would make an excellent submission review 
system.

Original comment by neild...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2007 at 2:50