Re: Enhancing Gnotices

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 20:44, Michael R. Bernstein wrote:
> 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...
I did, my suggestion was more of a short term fix waiting for the real
thing :)

Christian