Re: [Fofredux-devel] beta v0.2 ready for testing

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

On 11/17/05, Carlos Kozuszko <ck...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Oh my! Im checking the mail i've sent you last week where i've
> supposedly attached a patch to solve that issue, justo to find that
> there is no file attached. I'll send the patch tonight. I needed the
> correct dates from the feeds in order to calc weekly word count
> averages.

Yes - the current CVS checkin doesn't have any of patches applied to
it. Devs should now go through and add these patches, etc. and check
back in. Once it's all ok with this initial release - we should
announce on the FoF forums.

>
> >2) Categories are done on a 1 feed to 1 category mapping per
> feed.However, I started to put in support for putting in a 1 feed can
> havemany categories. This complicates a lot more of the code/sql
> entries,so I held off for the time being. What do you think?
>
> Wouldn't tags solve the categories problem ? A feed could have
> multiple tags, there wouldn't be the necessity of a father-child
> relationship between them.
>

Sure - but what is the mechanism for "tags"? I don't think a general
folksonomy is necessary helpful - may be. I guess one could pull in
from del.icio.us or technorati, or whatever. However, I know I would
like a quick means to flag items as I'm reading. My method of
operation would be to quickly scan through all article titles/intros,
flag the ones I want to read and mark the others as "read" (past
tense). Then go back through and actually *read* (silly english
language when typing - this may be confusing) the articles that I've
flagged. Then I may want to add additional tags at that point for
actual article "archival".

To review my suggestion:
1) Update all feeds, load view/frames
2) scan through, pressing the "flag" button next to all articles I
want to actually read
3) mark all articles that aren't "flagged" as "read"
4) review "flagged" articles and optionally apply tags
5) pull up articles by just "flagged" or by any single, or combination, of =
tags
6) eventually be able to publish (aggregate) a feed (ergo "feed on
feeds"?) of a certain tagged item.

Andy

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