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

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

Ok - fixed the bugs that cropped up for you. If you could please test it ag=
ain.

I, or someone, still needs to apply the timestamp patch - b/c the
date/times aren't really working.

I can see the benefits of having a user-defined taxonomy of tags. For
one thing, many feeds supply the blog's categories for the item - so
we could optionally apply these tags by default.

I would also like to keep categories for a more general genre type of
organization of feeds. For example, I want to pull up all of my
"technology" feeds, but may not want to have that as a tag (where tags
would be like mac, programming, php). But maybe not.

If we are going to have tags - that iwll be a large infrastructure
addition. For one thing, will need to begin by filling out the
tag-item table, and then pulling this extra tables into all of the
functions, etc. Anyone want to sign-up to implement tags? :)

Andy

On 11/19/05, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
> Benjamin Stewart wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:32:24PM -0500, Andrew Turner wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thanks for the bug report Kevin - I will fix those this weekend and do
> >>a checkin.
> >>
> >>Any more thoughts on categories/tagging?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes:  the short version is, I think feed categories should be handled by
> >tagging, and an ability to tag individual posts should exist via the
> >same mechanism.  Regardless of whether or not we're going to walk down
> >the reblog path, I think the ability for a user to tag specific entries
> >for future reference will add additional functionality above and beyond
> >the ability to "save / mark / star / whatever you want to call it"
> >entries.
> >
> >Re-using the same mechanism for doing feed categories seems only
> >logical.
> >
> >--Benjy
> >
> >
> It sounds like category vs. tag are very similar in functionality.   To
> me, it sounds like category is a specialized type (subtype) of a tag.
>
> I guess the question is:  What do categories give use that tagging does
> not.  Is there any feature/behavior a category must do that can not be
> naturally supported by tags.
>
> I can think of one case where using tags on items as "categories" could
> break or at least require extra work to get the functionality to work as
> expected.  What happens when a user decides to change the category(s)
> for a feed.  If we are tagging new items to a category when they are
> inserted, what about all the old items already in the db.  All those
> items would have to be updated to reflect the change in category for the
> feed they are in.
>
> --Kevin
>
>
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