Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-31 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:02 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Matthew Paul Thomas Trying to stay away from the bikeshed, but: This function isn't for searching forums in particular, it's for searching the Web-based help for the distribution (help.ubuntu.com for Ubuntu, novell.com/support

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Matthew Paul Thomas Trying to stay away from the bikeshed, but: This function isn't for searching forums in particular, it's for searching the Web-based help for the distribution (help.ubuntu.com for Ubuntu, novell.com/support for Sled, fedora.redhat.com/docs for Fedora, and so on).

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:52:24PM +0100, Don Scorgie wrote: Since then, myself and Shaun have been trying desperately to get a redirect script put up somewhere in gnome.org [1] which would parse the query and redirect to gnomesupport.org. This allowed several things: 1) To stop from breaking

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jeff Waugh I pinged DonS again for the recipe, as I no longer had the script URL to hand (And only now do I realise it was in the original mail... Gar!) We can't 'quick fix' this: The whole point of doing this is to provide a consistent, stable API.

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:06 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jeff Waugh I pinged DonS again for the recipe, as I no longer had the script URL to hand (And only now do I realise it was in the original mail... Gar!) We can't 'quick fix' this: The whole point of doing this is to

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance I want the query string to be in the common key=value form, like http://api.gnome.org/yelp/forums?query=this+is+a+test It should silently ignore any keys other than query, so that we can add information to the query string, even before we've made the script able to

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:36 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Shaun McCance I want the query string to be in the common key=value form, like http://api.gnome.org/yelp/forums?query=this+is+a+test It should silently ignore any keys other than query, so that we can add information

Re: (Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Don Scorgie Since then, myself and Shaun have been trying desperately to get a redirect script put up somewhere in gnome.org [1] which would parse the query and redirect to gnomesupport.org. I'll make sure to sort this out for you over the weekend, so Yelp can ship with the new

(Potential) Request for UI- and feature-freeze break for Yelp

2006-08-25 Thread Don Scorgie
Hi, Shortly before feature freeze, yelp was granted a new super-power: the ability to repeat a search online. This came in the form of a little comment at the end of the search results along the lines of Repeat the search online at The GNOME Support Forums, where The GNOME Support Forums was