Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-29 Thread Paul Ruizendaal
Can you link me some info on the hooks? I didn't need them for the social networking stuff, but something like server-side scripting with scripts in the repository would be very nice. TH1 is good for templating, but personally, I'd like a full language -- a complete TCL or Lua or something

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 03/29/11 10:16, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: That being said, I'm opposed to bloat and function creep in Fossil. Perhaps what is needed is a small companion to Fossil that acts as a hub server. That companion could be a webserver / sqlite / javascript combo, which either reads the database files

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-29 Thread Bill Burdick
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.ukwrote: On 03/29/11 10:16, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: That being said, I'm opposed to bloat and function creep in Fossil. Perhaps what is needed is a small companion to Fossil that acts as a hub server. That companion

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Wilson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Bill Burdick bill.burd...@gmail.com wrote: Functionality-wise, call-out hooks are OK for some things but a good, embedded scripting language is a simple way to do tightly integrated, cross-platform Fossil extensions, like Mercurial's plugins. ... Also, Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-28 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On Mar 22, 2011, at 21:55 , Ron Wilson wrote: Some have already critisized Fossil for including issue tracking and wiki fuctionality, Right now, I think the synergy of the 3 core functions is great. I do not see sufficient increase in synergy by adding other major functions directly to

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-28 Thread Bill Burdick
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Bill Burdick bill.burd...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone talked about adding Github-like social networking to Fossil? Just as github is a serperate project built on top of git, any Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Burdick
I've started implementing this in a way that requires no changes to the Fossil executable. I have a proof of concept in this repo: http://tinyconcepts.com/fs.pl/hub.fsl that demonstrates the underlying concepts: it uses static HTML and JavaScript to manipulate a JSON attachment to the account

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Burdick
Oh -- to see the proof of concept, click the Account button. It loads the JSON attachment and displays a list of links to followed repositories. Bill On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Bill Burdick bill.burd...@gmail.comwrote: I've started implementing this in a way that requires no changes

[fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-22 Thread Bill Burdick
Has anyone talked about adding Github-like social networking to Fossil? If not, I was thinking it might be a useful idea to talk about. Suppose you had a personal Network page for each user in a repository, available only to them when they are logged in. That would allow any repository to serve

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-22 Thread Trou Macacq
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:28:54 +0200, Bill Burdick bill.burd...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone talked about adding Github-like social networking to Fossil? I think it might be a good idea to add OpenID server feature to the fossil (OpenID authentication backend as well). So we will get

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil social networking

2011-03-22 Thread Ron Wilson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Bill Burdick bill.burd...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone talked about adding Github-like social networking to Fossil? Just as github is a serperate project built on top of git, any Fossil based social network would be better implemented as a seperate project built