[documentation] Proposal for handbook maintenance automation
Matt Kelly
matthwk at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 03:49:55 UTC 2007
As a newer handbook maintainer I find it hard to find items that need to
be updated. I end browsing around aimlessly or I only update content
that I have found useful.
My idea for a page that displays a queue of handbook pages based on
weight hopes too fix this problem. The module would gather statistics
including popularity (number of total page views, page views per day,
etc) and age (time of last update), and then weight them based off of
that combination. Then, it would output the results in a page that
other maintainers could view. Obviously, the pages at the top would be
the oldest and most popular. This would at least show maintainers what
pages may need to be updated.
Also, I think if a common user could flag a handbook as "needs updated",
it would come in use. Before I was a maintainer, I viewed handfuls of
handbook pages that needed updated, but I didn't know who to notify. It
would be useful to have a link for "needs updated", or something
similar, so that maintainers could be notified. All flagged handbook
pages would be compiled into a page, sorted by number of flags.
Thoughts? Maybe I'm missing something that already solves these
problems? Let me know.
Thanks,
Matt
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