@pnemade filed Fedora-Council/tickets ticket #400. Discuss here and record votes and decisions in the ticket.
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Hi @pnemade thank you for opening this. I also see that this is the state of badges. It has been an issue I have continually tried to improve since about 2019. I focus on the badge design side and keep an eye on Badges generally, I have a good idea of what has been done over the past few years. I’d like to add that info here for context. I will tag folks who were a part of these efforts to provide any additional context I am missing.
- Flock 2019 - I organized a Badges workshop where we had admins and designers come together. The designers focused on a new badge template design to modernize and we also ran user testing. The admins discussed what would be required to fix up the back end of badges.
- Spring/Summer of 2020 - CPE officially offloaded maintaining this app. A couple folks mentored an intern to look into the possibility of using Badgr and worked on some other things. Aiui, badgr was deemed not suitable for our needs because it was a regression in features (we couldn’t do QR codes and some other things iirc)
- Winter of 2021 - @mattdm and myself put in a request to CPE to review badges to see what needs to be done to get things working better/again. We are following up to make sure that something concrete came out of that review.
- Most recently we have found that anyone who has signed up for a Fedora account after the new FAS system was put in place is not receiving badges, which is really not great. I pinged @laxathom recently to see if he would be able to look at it, and he is interested in assisting.
- Summer of 2022 - I am co-mentoring a Badges Design intern in this upcoming round of Outreachy to work on a number of things. We also have some more design interns coming on that will be looking into the front-end of badges. Based on these things, it would be great if we could come together and fix up the backend as well!
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