Blog Aggregator
Contents
Goal
A blog aggregator should er... aggregate the Fellows blogs
Coordinator
- Ivan Jelic
People
- Ivan Jelic
Volunteers are always welcome! Have a look at FellowshipHacks to know how you can help
Status
The platform is up and running. We are considering some improvements (see the TODO section)
Updated on: 090405
Tasks
This is an overview of the tasks to do for the completion of the project.
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TODO
- Fix the "wrong titles" bug reported by Florian Boor
- Problem: when a post has images, planet displays the title of the second image as headline
cri: it's a bug in rawdog 2.10; I've tried installing 2.12: this fixes the bug but introduces a new bug: feeds with non-ascii characters just broke. I've asked for info on the rawdog list, but no answers yet: http://lists.us-lot.org/pipermail/rawdog-users/2009-February/000291.html
- Fixes to the CSS/theme
- We should consider moving the IE7-specific CSS code out of the head-element and to its own CSS file, to clarify the separation between structure and look/feel
- Rawdog improvements
- The lines after the headline of an article should show the author of the blog
cri: for newly added blogs: this can be done in the feeds configuration file; for old EZ blogs, I can fix the migration query and re-run it
- The link on the author/blog name should point to the html page of the blog, not the RSS feed
cri: this requires patching rawdog (by default the blog url is not available as a template string)
schiessle: http://planetkde.org/ does it; we can ask how they do
- The lines after the headline of an article should show the author of the blog
Set up an automated subscription mechanism (this is part of the FellowshipHacks/Projects/AccountMaintenance project)
Nice To Have: let Fellows upload a hackergotschi in the user prefs and show it (in Wordpress and in Rawdog)
cri: http://planetkde.org/ does it; we can ask how they do
DONE
- Finalise requirements (see notes)
- Finalise decision on the aggregator platform (see notes)
- Setup test system (once the test system for the blog is in place)
- CSS, graphics, artwork (first version finished)
- Add blog feeds for Fellows that already requested this
- Set up other instances of rawdog for languages different from English
Systems involved
- Production systems: utyonkov
- Test systems: utyonkov
Notes
Requirements
- The aggregator should accept both blogs on fsfe.org and blogs on other sites
- Fellows could choose in their preferences page wether to add their feed to the aggregator
Choice of the platform
Possible solutions:
- planet (was tested)
- rawdog (currently tested and used for planet.kde.org)
- wordpress multiuser plugin
- ivan s-h 081013: I've recently thought about more automated solution that might involve WPMU itself. In other words, WP should be able to aggregate posts from its users, natively or through some plugin. The page where the posts are being collected can be used as planet, and if it for some reason shows bad performance, we can generate some static page from cron... This is just a brainstorm, we need to discuss it.
- mk (s-h 081013)
- Important is that it is also possible for Fellows to add their RSS/Atom whatever feed in the user preferences and then their blog is also aggregated to the planet. Because a lot of people already have blogs and do not want to use the fsfe blog but aggregation. I think that this is the majority.
Beside that it would be nice if they can upload a hackergotschi in the user prefs and this is shown there.
- I have the feeling that it might be better to just use planetplanet or rawdog. Script which adds RSS-feed + other information from Fellow to the planetplanet or rawdog config file, copy the hackergotschi in the right directory and that's it I think. But that's only a feeling.