[documentation] Proposal for handbook maintenance automation

[Kieran Lal]

On 8/7/07, Matt Kelly <matthwk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


http://drupal.org/handbook/comments
http://drupal.org/handbook/most-popular-pages
http://drupal.org/handbook/updates
http://drupal.org/handbook/new-contributions

Cheers,
Kieran

Thanks,
> Matt
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