694410 - Add new fields so people can add their contribution stories to their profiles

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, enhancement)

Description

[David Boswell]

I think we should add a couple of fields to people's profiles so they can add their contribution stories to their information.  

For example, I've started collecting contribution stories on a wiki, but it would be more powerful to have people add this directly to their profiles.  The stories would be more discoverable and could be used in visualizations of the community.

The two fields I think we need are:

* Year joined community: a drop-down with years ranging from 1998 to present

* A field for a link to a blog post, flickr photo, YouTube video, etc of someone telling their story

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Good idea! I think it'd be reasonably easy to do this, but I'll take a look at some requirements.

Comment 2

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

The "join date" field will land with the redesigned profile: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867267

Comment 3

[Jonathan Sundqvist]

I would like to give this a try. Perhaps it would be good to have this field just below the 'Bio' field? The question is though, should we allow people to write the story of how they began their contributions there or should it only be a link to some place else? 

David, what does the contribution stories on the wiki look like?

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

(In reply to Jonathan Sundqvist from comment #3) 
> David, what does the contribution stories on the wiki look like?

Jonathan, I've collected a link to around 20 different contribution stories at

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Contribute/Stories

Some of them are really compelling -- for instance, take a look at Mitchell's contribution story post:

http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/07/12/watching-brendan-delegate-authority-now-june-2011-and-then-jan-1999/

Comment 5

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

(In reply to Jonathan Sundqvist from comment #3)
> I would like to give this a try. Perhaps it would be good to have this field
> just below the 'Bio' field? The question is though, should we allow people
> to write the story of how they began their contributions there or should it
> only be a link to some place else? 

Awesome, thanks for giving it a try Jonathan!

I agree with adding this field below the Bio field. Since lots of people have written a post with their contribution story and that format is encouraged, I suggest we make the field a link. The link text could say something like 'Read how I got involved with Mozilla'.

Comment 6

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

Assigning to Jonathan. Here is the git flow and directions for submitting a pull request:

http://mozillians.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contribute.html

If you have any questions, stop by #commtools on irc.mozilla.org.

Comment 7

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Hi Janathan,

Are you still interested in this bug? If you don't have the time to work on this now, it's fine. I can de-assign you from this bug and find you a new one when have the time again. Let me know :)

Comment 8

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Jonathan, I understand that you are pretty busy at the moment and you don't have the time required to finish this bug. That's OK! I'll cancel your assignment to this bug so other contributors can fix it and when you have more time again I will get you new bugs to work on. 

Please ping me on IRC when available :)

Comment 9

[Jeff Potts]

Here is the pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/pull/897

Comment 10

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/8aafd4cc8621cc6e6607755996b74f862ae01643
[Fix bug 694410] Add story link to profile

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/a035a09777dd81fd30d2ada3c8c24cc0b675e8cd
Merge pull request #897 from jpotts/fix_694410

[Fix bug 694410] Add story link to profile

Comment 11

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

QA verified on stage - this looks great! Thank you mightily :jeffpotts!

* url validation works as expected when adding a link to a contributor story - note we don't check to see if the domain is live (500 error)
* visibility to public/mozillians works as expected