"Easyfix" page approx 1.5 years out-of-date

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Summary

The easyfix contributors page needs to be updated.

According to the bottom text:

Last update: Fri May 05 2023 06:30

Steps to reproduce

  1. Go to fedoraproject.org
  2. Contributors (dropdown) → New Contributors → Easy Fix
  3. Click on various listings. Many will be: closed, out-of-date, marked completed, or open (but already completed) (Ref: 183, 189, 199, 207, 528, 534, 732, 2413, etc.)

Impact

  • Bad first impression for new contributors.
  • New Contributors will have to sift through many entries to find relevant ones

Possible long-term fix

Some kind of RSS feed of GitHub/pagure issues that open, and labeled noob-friendly.

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Most of the links in the top bar being 404s doesn’t help, either.

It’s starting to look like that site would be better served by someone taking it out back and putting it out of its misery, than bothering to “fix” it.

But I agree it’s definitely reflecting poorly on the project, while it’s still looming there like the creeping undead.

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Yeah, we talked about retiring this page/service as it had a lot of issues with intent… what is ‘easy’ and how are they marked, etc.

Of course you are quite correct that it’s broken right now. ;(

So, probibly we should just retire it, but I suppose we could fix it if people still find it useful.

CC: @zlopez @abompard @t0xic0der @jflory7

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I had proposed retirement (when I was in the room with the Fedora Council at Frankfurt F2F 2023) of the service (and that for WCIDFF as well) a couple of years back and I would propose the same here too. There has been enough time spent on understanding how we can get the value out of it and every single time, we have realized that it is less of a platform problem and more of a people problem.

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I’m +1 for retirement as well, it is a nice page, but it’s no longer helpful at all. It would rather be better to have some kind of crossroads that will point people to correct places where to look. They can always look for anything with EasyFix, FirstIssue and so on in the tracker of the project they care about.

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ok. Would someone like to take on the retirement then?

I filed Issue #12355: retire easyfix - fedora-infrastructure - Pagure.io to track this

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For the purposes on my livestreams, I’ve cobbled together this easyfix page from the remnents of the previous codebases, it’s not great but it’s somewhat up-to-date. It still uses the wiki as a database for projects to crawl, though, so, not ideal at all.
I had submitted a proposal for an outreachy intern to redo this page properly, but it didn’t make the cut.
If anybody wants to work on a nice easyfix page, I think it would be very useful work, and I’m happy to help.