[Phpwebsite-developers] Post 8.2 enhancements for userpage

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I hope this is the right place for this email, rather than the open 
discussion forum.   

See this post by  Kevin M Reed  in the cvs 0.8.x forum
 http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=1528779

Can anybody tell me how we go about enhancing features during this 
pre-release phase, and immediately after the release?    I want to 
add some features to the userpage, particularly a page description, 
keywords and do-publish option.

Will there be patch releases to come out later?  Can features like 
the userpage be released separately from the full next-release (8.3)?

I also am thinking about a system that would draw search robots to a 
special directory in PWS.   I would write some functions that would 
create static pages that have links back to the actual page, and 
create a  robots.txt file to direct robots to search this 'index' 
directory.   Different features/modules could call this function to 
create or replace entries in this directory.  The entries in this 
directory would not be visited by a regular site visitor, unless he 
is coming in from a search engine.

The function would look something like this:
  robot_announce(
    announcement_name => Like a primary key to replace an old 
announcment
    keyword_list => golf, poker, beer
    description   => Description destined for the html header
    summary  => Human readable summary of the page or link
    expiration => days to retain announcement in robot_index
    url_to_page =>  "http://......")
{
    Create static page using input params;

    Write the url of this page to an index page ("announcement_name")
    that search engines    would seek out.
}

There may be a better way to do this, and I'm open to ideas.   I 
especially would need advice about how to make these entries 
attractive to a search engine.  It doesn't do too much good if robots 
decide these are just a bunch of trivial little pages to be placed at 
the end of search results.