Re: [Launchpad-users] Attracting participation

[Tim Penhey <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:11:53 Andrew SB wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Algis Kabaila <akabaila@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Every project benefits from participation by interested users.  If not by
> > doing the work, which is invaraibly quite varied, requiring different
> > tallents, then by criticism and/or encouragement.  People are motivated
> > by both and need both.  The "developers" are "people" :)
> >
> > I have been involved for a while with writing of a book with programs to
> > support it.  It now has been regisered as "easmy" project on Launchpad
> > (easmy, because easy was allready taken up.)  I want to make it as easy
> > as possible for people to express their interest (or lack of it) to that
> > project and therefore make it possible for registered Launchpad members
> > to join the project as simply as possible.  I have seen in some project a
> > link for registering interest in the project, subject to acceptance by
> > the "administrator" of the project.
> >
> > How do I go about putting that in easmy, preferrably in its home page?
> >
> > Like so many other facilities, it probably is very elementary so that
> > "everybody" knows - but I don't  :(
> 
> The way Launchpad is set up, you join teams not projects. The teams
> can then take on different roles in the project. For instance, you
> could have an easmy-dev team which you can make the owner of you code
> branches so that others can be given commit access. Or you can create
> an easmy-users team which could provide a mailing list through
> Launchpad for users to discuss your project.
> 
> Find out more here: https://help.launchpad.net/Teams
> 
> Create new teams here: https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+newteam

Although this is how it is now, I'd love a feature where a person can express 
interest in a project.  They could then have a list of projects that they are 
interested in, and perhaps see an aggregated feed of items from their 
interested projects.

Tim