Re: Enhancing Gnotices

["Michael R. Bernstein" <webmaven lvcm com>]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 00:11, Christian Schaller wrote:
>
> Great work Michael!
>
> You haved fixed the two most glaring problems with Gnotices with these
> fixes. The TROVE RSS feed is the only critical thing we need fixed in
> the short run, and the b-day issue a nicety which would 
> let us keep the b-day announements as a community building thing without
> annoying people interested in GNOME development news.

Gotcha. I don't have a timetable for you, but I'll keep you all posted
on my progress.

> Of the remaining issues there are two things which I think would be
> really nice to see if something can be done with given the uncertainty
> of the Swishdot timetable. That is Delayed publication and the event
> calendar. The calendar would be really nice if as a short term solution
> could be moved to display items from:
> http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar.html
> 
> Since the calendar just displays items from an ordinary website I would
> think that changing to the URL above would be in the tweak category?

I don't know. Who wrote the code that parses the off-site page? It's in
an external method (on the server filesystem) so I can't access it.

Besides, I thought I understood that you wanted to replace this with a
calendar that people could submit items to...

The delayed publication really should wait until a CMF/Swishdot upgrade.
CMF has built in facilities for delayed publication and getting Swishdot
to leverage that (if it doesn't already) will not be very hard. Adding
this to Squishdot will be a pain in the butt, however.

A dynamic event calendar can be added in the meantime, and it should be
possible to port over to the CMF later, but since it will still involve
some duplication of effort, I'd rather put it off. As an example of a
CMF based event calendar implementation (that doesn't see heavy use at
present), see: http://cmf.zope.org/calendar/calendar

Michael.