Re: Merging the FSF jobs page and GNU Herds

[Davi Leal]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> > > Maybe, when the project has been finished, the worker (previously, one
> > > of the applicants), could report if the job did comply with the "Free
> > > Software Jobs Guidelines" ?.
> > >
> > > Feedback after the fact cannot do the job reliably.  The only way to
> > > do this task right is for someone who really understands to check the
> > > job advertisement before it is posted, and ask the company questions.
> >
> > Even thus, somebody might lie. Nothing is 100% reliable. Human make
> > mistakes. Automatic checking, besides very much cheap in resources,
> > realizes 100% right what it does.
>
> That is true, but I don't think many people will tell an actual lie to
> place a job ad.
>
> Supposing they did so, the real job would conflict greatly with the
> ad, in such a way that anyone applying for the job would be told about
> it; and they would be quite likely to report it to us.
>
> Using an automated system, they could easily just leave out some aspect,
> fail to talk about it.

Please, let us know if that feature set is right.


About the source code at the dev_1_1 branch, the modifications have been:

Problem:
 The FAQ. Who can post job offers.
Solution:
 We have applied your restrictions.

Problem:
 The Qualifications search facility.
Solution:
 Only a summarized entity listing without the entity
 contact information is exposed. Anyway, if you want
 we can disable this feature.

Improvement:
 Replaced some of the free-to-fill fields with combo
 boxes. Now we have more control about what is
 exposed. Besides, manual checking will be easier.

Manual checks which the FSF could support:
* Check user warnings about JobOffers or Entities.
* Check each job offer before being posted or
  check entities only each year and enable it to post.


P.S.: New problems with my Internet provider delay the return to
online state of the demo host up to 10-11-2006!. No comment. :P

Advice is needed and welcome.

Best regards,
Davi