[Trisquel-users] A Plea for Help

[Antonio Gallo]

> I would agree!  Hardware can be
> a big hickup when it comes to free software.  It does
> unfortunately annoy users when their printer/wireless
> card/whatever doesn't work without non-free drivers. 
> More user data on hardware is great.  If this could be
> integrated w/ Trisquel as some sort of survey that would be
> awesome.  Maybe put into the installer it could ask the
> user if in 24 hours they want to take a survey that would be
> submitted to h-node about if their hardware works.
> 
> Something like this maybe:
> We detected the following hardware for you:
> Printer: HP blah blah
> Does it work? (Yes) (No) (Partially (Please explain)
> Wireless Card: Netgear blah blah
> Does it work? (Yes) (No) (Partially (Please explain)
> Ect.
> 
> 

Yes the survey is a very good idea, I hope I will be able to implement it as soon as possible. At the current stage I've already wrote a python library (it is the hlibrary.py file inside client folder) to make a lot of nice things: choose the server, login/logout to the server, submit new hardware, synchronize with the XML database of the server and so on.  The library can be used to build the desired GUI

I'm finishing the GUI and I have also to prepare the server for anonymous submission (users that do not have an account).

It would be nice to build a simple application to make survey and submit information. I'm not sure if it have to be linked to the existing client (GUI) or if it has to be a stand alone application.

Anyway, the client already try to obtain as much information as possible (name, vendorid:productid code, distribution used) and the user has only to indicate if it works or not

If some of you can help in the coding of the Python client it would be very nice :)

> More user data on hardware is great.  If this could be
> integrated w/ Trisquel as some sort of survey that would be
> awesome.  Maybe put into the installer it could ask the
> user if in 24 hours they want to take a survey that would be
> submitted to h-node about if their hardware works.
> 

Yes, I hope this will be the future