Trial idea: a log for keeping track of tasks and delegation

Oh, good idea. In this thread, right? I'll enumerate my "come back around" items as replies to this post.

For things like tag and user search, we can have instances redirect (HTTP 3xx) users' requests to their search endpoints, up through us.

This could probably be done with a caddy/nginx/apache rule passively, on the instance's end, and on our end we would return tag and person results based on what's visible through our central instance.

3xx'ing API endpoints would likely be the most minimal-impact, lowest barrier-to-entry, and lowest maintenance/workload way of doing this.

Some prose to consider for setup guides:

By joining the Website League as a federated instance, your instance's search endpoint should pull in results from every node.

The provided [specify httpd] rules you used when setting up, will also enable this feature by directing searches from users on your instance, to the Website League's own hub-mounted search engine endpoint.

This is not mandatory, and it is not the only way of federating the search job, but it is more efficient than relaying a search to each spoke instance, or handling your own catalog of users.

Operate a subdomain registry to which League members and instances are linked/relayed. Serves two purposes:

1. Allow members to have a canonical address through the League

2. Can point to users' servers where registering a domain name is not feasible.

Offer a "setup wizard", possibly written in PHP with a commandline and web frontend, for getting a node online quickly? Single file "drop and run" style premise.

honestly, we need a couple project logistics custodians. people that just deal with the overhead of coordinating projects. “release management” is one similar role

@kouhai i have been sort of doing this have had too many plates in the air to give it the attention it needs. i'd been thinking of setting up some kind of project management software but for now i think loomio's task stuff will work fine.

@kouhai I know someone already in the Discord who is a professional project manager and pretty passionate about it. I'll ask if she's interested/has bandwidth, I would absolutely vouch for her as a steward.

that's a yes; nominating Airylan for stewardship per skillset/expertise. (recording here but I presume this'll be handled in #stewards on Discord)

We need to figure out three big things, which I may be able to work on now that a lot of the other stuff I've been working on is starting to stabilize:
1. What have we done? (this one's easier)
2. What do we need?
3. What are people currently working on?
4. Do we need to intentionally redirect our efforts in any way to meet our goals, and if so, how will we do that, and what will we prioritize?

We need to get the docs into the wiki at https://information.websiteleague.org/, there's a lot of stubs at the moment. I have no idea if someone is working on that already or not.