This is just a proposal. I thought that a very little additional tag to the author of an Issue or Comment would help
to identify weight, importance, relevance etc for all readers of an Issue or Comment.

Better visible what I mean in following:

This is what generally appear on the left side of a posted issue as for identify
who authorship it.

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wolfflow - October 14, 2008 - 23:13 ---> <div class="info-page">
Project: Documentation
Component: Correction/Clarification
Category: task
Priority: critical
Assigned: wolfflow
Status: active
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1. Modification: Addition of "Team tag" to the Member Nick Automatically
selected and edited by role
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wolfflow (Doc-Team)- October 14, 2008 - 23:13 ---> <div class="info-page">
Project: Documentation
Component: Correction/Clarification
Category: task
Priority: critical
Assigned: wolfflow
Status: active
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2. Modification: Addition of a Team tag to the Member Nick by Option select Manually.
Option list viewable only by role

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wolfflow - October 14, 2008 - 23:13 ---> <div class="info-page">
Team: Doc Team
Project: Documentation
Component: Correction/Clarification
Category: task
Priority: critical
Assigned: wolfflow
Status: active
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3. Modification: Addition of a the "Team tag" to the Signature Automatically.
Optionally actionable in the User account settings and if active will also activate
identification of team class/role in the <div class="info-page">

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wolfflow - Doc-Team
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Reasons and guessed relevant effects for the proposal:

1. The reader can better classify the submitted Issue by knowing to what Department or Section belong.
2. The reader can better weight the value, importance, priority of the comment or Issue.
3. If this also can be visible in the Issue queue where the Column of assigned appear this would
IMO significantly easy evaluation of Issue Classification by Site Maintainers etc.
4. For all members this would also help to identify better Issue that would help them to find and
filter documentation which can lead to learn faster and increase learning curve.

Your feedback is very much appreciate. Thanks

Comments

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented
Status: Active » Needs work

Hopefully someone could state something about. It would be a pleasure. :-)

Or should I accept the fact of being ignored. Kind Regards

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented
Status: Needs work » Active

As usual I got ignored, maybe reactivating this Issue will be useful to be taken in consideration :-(

keith.smith’s picture

keith.smith commented

Wolfflow,

I'm sure no one is ignoring you; there are a lot of issues and only so much time in the day to read them all.

As I understand your proposal, you think adding a commenter's role (like "Documentation team member" or "Site maintainer") to issues would help either (a) understand the frame of mind of the person making the comment, or (b) add greater importance to the comment by publicizing the user's role, or (c) help publicize that there are these roles like the documentation team that people could join if they wished to contribute? Please let me know if I'm not understanding your motivation here.

My initial reaction is that most of us probably have many roles. I'm on the documentation team, and am also a site maintainer, and also work in the core issue queue, etc., etc. Lots of people do much more than I do, and belong to even more roles. How would you envision displaying this information when there are many of these "teams" to display for each poster? There probably isn't a programmatic way to determine if I'm commenting from a "documentation team" perspective, for instance, as opposed to a "site maintainer" perspective. And, if you list all such "teams", it probably just increases the noise and reduces the signal; it is my sense that most people who comment on issues probably wear many hats (ie, belong to many teams), and so this wouldn't be all that useful.

One thing you could do, though, similar to your point #3, is just add "Documentation team member" to your signature in your user account settings, so that it appears on all your posts and comments.

I have also seen, in the past, various proposals for user "badges" that would appear somewhere around someone's username on posts. That proposal, too, suffers from the multiple role problem (unless you display multiple badges), but it would probably be a graphical way of doing what you're suggesting here, without using up quite so much screen real estate.

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

Hi @keith.smith,

First I did not want to complain, with

As usual I got ignored, maybe reactivating this Issue will be useful to be taken in consideration :-(

, as sometime I get tired and just write something to reactivate my Issue, sorry. I do know that there is a lot ongoing in this special period.

Yes, You exactly interpret my Issue. I'm sure that all Newcomers, Newbies to Drupal and Visitors will very much appreciate to be in clear about who is writing responses to their query. This will also cause that we all can undergo a natural selection process as also to see in what qualification degree the different Team Members are, also in what stage of Knowledge oneself can state it's self. I'm also part of the Documentation Team and D.O. Site Maintainers despite the fact that my Coding Knowledge is very low yet.

But I do my best to help out especially from my status to contribute to make the Membership Experience on D.O. more user friendly and effective. I'm trying to build some page in the Handbook, like:

Common Terminology
Issue Submit Form - Description Table
Drupal.org Membership types Table
Does Drupal.org have a "Glossary"?
The importance of Terminology
Full Article about: The importance of Terminology

Those are just like a road map of my end purpose to implement a kind of "INDEX" where in my opinion all
new visitors with less knowledge on how to orient themselves on D.O. will instinctively go to search an index of
content of the Site as to find the searched valuable informations on where to start.

I thank you very much on responding my Issue and hope to be of any help
and will very much appreciate any feedback.

Kind Regards

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Frankly I would be in favour of seeing something like this - I like the concept of having Team tag automatically added and being able to manually set one - to be able to wear a different hat depending on the circumstance.

I think this is pretty normal in most forums, such as karma and/or badge type systems - I think the concept is similar, to give the OP some assurance of who is answering them.

Of late I've seen a lot of new users plastering treads with misleading quickfire answers, for what reason I cannot say, except that its bloody annoying, having given a solid answer, only to have someone else mislead or downright put wrong the OP. This must be very confusing for many noobs.

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

@jmburnz Thank you for your positive comment. As for my personal efforts to try to push some solutions for the easy and friendly usability for noobs on Drupal.org and because there is not that much support aside of members on D.O. I would like you also to see following Issue as to get an Idea on what for really difficult object of discussion are mostly my threads.

Kind Regards
(Please forgive my bad English, that might lead to misunderstandings)

heather’s picture

heather commented

Hello Wolfflow, I'm reading through your recent issues, catching up. Just a personal note, I sympathize with your feelings and I feel bad I wasn't there to respond. I've been v busy lately, and I think volunteer efforts fall prey to this kind of situation. It's low on my priority (working various jobs, and worked on a big drupal event!) - so many other things get in the way.

I hope you don't take it personally.

This is a very BIG question and topic, and alot of people on the Doc team may not feel they have the authority to comment.

This kind of feature request might be good directed into the discussions around re-design.

Your suggestions are very well thought-out and detailed. I think they'd be seen as helpful in that arena!

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

@heather , thank you very much for your comment. You do not have to feel bad, meanwhile I worked out that on Drupal.org there is not yet really very clear authority-lines, I mean many members that are involved on Drupal.org are also involved in different Teams and also have other project to follow and that is clear now to me.

But despite this fact I continue to say that a minimum of clear lines of authority and competence fields could really halp visitors and newbies to the drupal.org also to orient themselves in reporting and helping out.

The huge of cross-over communications, what already I have seen is really a PITA for beginners and it's normal that it can cause frustration. I am happy to continue trying to focusing on some small Site-characteristics (like this Issue) that might be taken in consideration later.

I got more time then the most members working in the different Teams and I will also improve better my explanation style and provide more short but concise and clear reports.

Thank you

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drumm
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commented
Title: Proposal: As to improve identification on Issue and Comment for every Member » Add user's team to issue followups
Component: Redesign » Other
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avpaderno
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Category: task » feature

-1 for this feature request.

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

+1 for this feature

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

As for I'm lately giving more time to help out in forum I notice that somehow the idea Add user's team to issue followup's is partially realize by the new filter by Author feature which is implemented now with the search feature on Drupal.org(project). That is great! many thanks to the site maintainer and admins!

Regards

Wolfflow’s picture

Wolfflow commented

to #12

but not enough to help Drupal.org Webmasters and Groups Leader to filter out Drupal.org registered users to involve them in contributing for tasks and projects like Documentation, Development and Design, so all volunteers that would like to contribute are lost in the huge amount of post and issue to review for organize better documentation content.

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dddave commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closed during the webmaster's clean-up sprint during DrupalCon Prague. Feel free to re-open if you think the issue is still valid.