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Nicolas Pastorino
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 9:18:32 am
Hi,
In the process of getting share.ez.no and projects.ez.no closer (merged eventually), a first step would be to make available to the outter world a XML view of a given project. This would allow anybody to get updated information about a given project he/she is participating to (latest forum activity, members, leaders, reviews ), and potentially display this information somewhere else.
What do you guys think ?
Cheers,
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Jérôme Vieilledent
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 9:22:25 am
Hello Nicolas
I add my bet on this ! This would be really nice :)
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Philippe VINCENT-ROYOL
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 9:49:38 am
Hey Nicolas
Same opinion, could be very nice and usefull :)
Cheers
Philippe
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Thiago Campos Viana
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 10:47:01 am
wouldn't be better to first merge ez projects and ez.no/developer/contribs?
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Nicolas Pastorino
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 11:47:41 am
Good point Thiago.
This has been planned for a while now but never was realized. I would be wise to indeed do this before doing the full-merger of share & projects. Also with the new version of ez.no being in the boxes (which will not have a contribs section). In short we'll need to speed up on this one.
I thought to notify all current contribution authors that the section will be closed down, and that they should re-create their contribution on projects.ez.no. We could leave a period of 2 months for this for instance.
Thoughts ?
Cheers,
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Nicolas
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Thiago Campos Viana
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09 January 2008
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Thursday 19 August 2010 12:48:02 pm
The first thing to do is change the link in ez.no->developer->projects and contributions to point projects.ez.no and keep ez.no/developer/contribs for a while, then send the email notification for contribs owner.
Backing to the topic question, I can't say if creating some type of xml communication between share and projects is a good idea because I don't know what is the long term plan to both sites, I don't know if the plan is merge share and projects into one bigger site or just improve communication between them.
I know that already has some type of integration in http://share.ez.no/new/projects but a point that I don't like is that in the share site there's a forum to ask about extensions, and in projects there's another. In share there's also a translation forum, and in projects there's the translation projects wich has a forum, I think this redundance isn't necessary, and would be better just one place to post comments and foum posts. Analysing ez.no and share I realized that projects.ez.no is a kind of hidden site, and people prefer use share ( wich is a little hidden too in ez.no ) to posts comment and ask for help about some project in projects.ez.no
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Gaetano Giunta
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09 January 2008
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Friday 20 August 2010 1:22:07 am
@nicio: I think most of the projects on the old section in ez.no will not migrate by themselves, with the authors not being available or interested any more.
But we do not want to loose all of that info, be it code or ideas.
We should think about automated migration in a kind of 'archive' mode of all projects whose maintainers take no action within the 2 months span.
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Gaetano Giunta
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09 January 2008
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Friday 20 August 2010 1:23:06 am
About xml for keeping updated: are not rss feeds of a project's component good enough for a start?
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Nicolas Pastorino
Member since:
09 January 2008
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Tuesday 24 August 2010 3:39:34 am
@gaetano : the archive thing could be an option indeed. We do not want to lose any of the ideas and concepts from the contribs section. How would you see this ?
Per the export : RSS is not sufficient for what we wanted to do on share.ez.no. Here is the kind of digest information we needed :
http://projects.ez.no/projectexport/export/cjw_newsletter/1
Which leads to this, once imported on share.ez.no : http://share.ez.no/new/projects/cjw-newsletter
We felt this exported view would be helpful for anybody to reflect projects on their platform, hence this thread.
Obviously this is a first version, and enhancements should be brought on-demand !
Cheers,
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Gaetano Giunta
Member since:
09 January 2008
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Tuesday 24 August 2010 7:16:00 am
@nico:
- for xml, i was thinking to have something along these lines:
1. rss feeds for stuff that canges (latest comments, commits, reviews)
2. an xml view for stuff that changes little (description, contributors)
The xml you propose is fine, I just hope you build it via templates ;-). Could the url be slightly tweaked so that if want to export other stuff (releases, etc...) it would still make sense?
- for the archive, the fastest I can think of is to use wget or httrack (or similar) to just grab html pages + zips and dump them as static stuff on a vhost/subdirectory somewhere.
Some quick + dirty php script might be used to clean up the 'add comment' button and other dead stuff.
I am sure extracting data from the eZ db is a better option, but it will actually take more time...
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