[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: [Submission System] Some

[Gabe O'Brien <gabe.obrien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank for the feedback on the Sub System. See my comments below on the 
progress of these tasks.

Oisin Hurley wrote:
> Hi Gabe,
> A few things from todays PC call.
>
>  1. Dave Carver and Doug Gaff are liking ckeditor to give our submission
> pages a bit of polish.  http://ckeditor.com/
>
> http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Integration
>   
I have opened a CQ for the ckeditor.  I have not attached the code yet 
as I need to review how much I need.  Should have that done soon.

>  2.  When you are reading a submission, the text of the talk type, theme
> and tags are a little confusing to read (I think - see the attachment for
> a screenshot). My suggestion here would be make a small change -
>
> Where you see
>
> Extended Making for Eclipse
>
> change to be
>
> Making for Eclipse - Extended Talk
>
> general form being
>
> <theme> - <talk type> Talk
>
> The tags are concatenated and make it a bit illegible. Where you see
>
> Committer And Contributor Java Test And Performance
>
> it would be better to read as
>
> Tags: Committer And Contributor / Java / Test And Performance
>
> and change it from bold-faced to either plain face or italics (I think it
> takes over a bit).
>   

This is done. Check out this example:
https://www.eclipsecon.org/submissions/2010/view_talk.php?id=1077

>  3. This one is an enhancement and may be more tricky. If someone
> selects "Extended" as their talk type, then we present another form
> entitled "We have a limited number of Extended talks available, so
> each Extended talk application is scrutinized by the Program Committee.
> Please provide some reasons why you believe that this talk should be
> granted 'Extended' status." Then there is a place to insert some text.
> When the submitter saves, then this text is saved as a 'private' comment
> to the PC.
>
>   

I am am working on this one.  I was also working on a feature to allow 
the author to ask for some extra time for their talk.  Is this feature 
to replace the extra time or in addition to it?

>  4. Is it possible to make tagging mandatory? That is, there must be
> at least one tag before the thing can be officially submitted. Does this
> make sense?
>
>   
They now have to select at least one tag before they can submit their talk.