On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Alan Burlison <[email protected]> wrote: > There's been some recent discussion around how best to provide aggregation > of the OpenSolaris blogger's feeds.
For blogs.opensolaris.org or planet.opensolaris.org? The two are rather different. Do we want to keep planet with manual editorial control? I think there are advantages to doing so. > The main problem seems to be the > overhead of managing all the feeds, Part of that is the restriction on it being a Sun employee. However, it seems to me that your suggestion can be used to work around that. > so I'd like to propose the following: > > 1. Auth is extended with an additional field for each user, which will > contain the URL of their blog feed, if they have one. Just blogs? Twitter? In other words, is this a point solution or an extensible mechanism? While we're on the subject, what about adding a hackergotchi field? (Which could be used outside a blog aggregator.) > 2. An XML-RPC interface is provided so that Planet can extract the list > of registered feeds (we already have a Python interface to Auth). Now, if there were a way of putting a filter on that so it could be processed then it would be more flexible: allowing planet (just as an example) to manually select a subset. I'm thing of a more general case of the following: > 3. An XWiki macro is provided to display just the feeds for a specific > CG/UG/P. > > We already have a 'Homepage URL' field, that will remain unchanged. > > We will only export feed info for people who have Leader, Affiliate or > Developer status to prevent malicious injection of feeds in to the ones we > aggregate. > > By doing this we can remove the current pain of having to manage all the > feeds centrally. > > If that sounds OK, I'll log a RFE. Generally, it seems good. Centralising the feeds so that changes only need to be done once is a good thing. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
