Re: [Gramps-devel] Headlines News ideas

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Benny Malengier
<ben...@gm...>wrote:

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>
> 2009/1/25 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>
>
> I've updated the News Gramplet to be Headline News. This is because the old
>> wiki News page was very long (which took a while to load) and very rarely
>> changed.
>>
>> The new version is designed to load a short, recently-updated page. In
>> fact, I made the gramplet update its contents every hour.
>>
>> This could be useful, for users and especially for developers. For
>> example, it could list the last few checkins, new blog posts, new bug
>> reports, recent wiki edits, recent mail, etc.
>>
>> The wiki text which is now loaded in the gramplet is now located here:
>>
>> http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=HeadlineNews
>>
>> But, perhaps this should not be human created (or maybe not entirely human
>> created). Perhaps we could have a script that runs on the server that
>> collects some recent info automatically. What do you think?
>>
>
> Nice idea.
> As Jason is thinking about a new front webpage, I'd say he might have ideas
> for this too.
>

Ok, I think I have the right way to do this: RSS feeds. All of the GRAMPS
things I think one might be interested have RSS feeds:

1. Blog Posts
2. Blog Comments
3. SVN commits
4. Bug tracker additions
5. Wiki recent changes

Others? Chatroom activity?

Plus, I'll get the HeadlineNews wiki contents, so humans can easily add text
to the updates.

Shall we run a script on the gramps-project.org server that dumps a few
items from each category into a textfile every once in a while, and let the
gramplet read the textfile? The other way would be to have each gramplet
query each service, but that sounds like too much activity.

-Doug


>
> Jason, as 3.1 would be for march, we can only set the page where the news
> comes from once. So if not wiki but something else, it should be known
> before  march :-)
>
> Benny
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>> -Doug
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