Not as yet, sorry; my laptop's power adaptor has died and all the files I
need are on there really; I'm ordering one tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be
back in actiion next week. What I think we need is some sort of abstract
php/db framework that allows us and the public to create/manage various
types of 'items' be they skins, plugins or whatever, with each having an
automatically updated rss feed. We'd also need an overarching search
function. I've been working on something similar for other projects I've
been doing, trying to make it as modular and abstract as possible so it's
flexible enough to accomodate practically anything... we could try running
from that, or doing something different?
Tom
2008/6/28 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Any updates on this Tom J?
>
> - Tom
>
> On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:01, Youness Alaoui wrote:
>
> > I think those are great idea.. but let's try to first have
> > something working :p
> >
> > KKRT
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:08:48PM +0100,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> 2008/6/10 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 10 Jun 2008, at 03:24, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:48PM +0100,
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>> 2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not
> >>>>>> having
> >>>>>> to upload skins and plugins manually anymore a lot), but in my
> >>>>>> experience some of our skin and plugin authors does a poor job of
> >>>>>> describing their own works, often because of poor skills in
> >>>>>> english.
> >>>>>> Descriptions like "Skin for amsn 0.97" is not at all uncommon.
> >>>>>> Do we
> >>>>>> want to remove this quality check?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That's okay, because it's not our responsiblity :P Sorta kidding
> >>>>> there. But
> >>>>> I think when they can see their skin/plugin is going up into this
> >>>>> sort of
> >>>>> system then they may be more aware of the importance of a
> >>>>> distinctive title,
> >>>>> rather than when they just post in a forum. And we can always send
> >>>>> authors a
> >>>>> message, or leave comments (of course there'll be a commenting
> >>>>> system ;)
> >>>>> letting them know that a more 'branded' name might be more
> >>>>> suitable, and, if
> >>>>> they're stuck, make some suggestions :)
> >>>>>
> >>>> And if they're too stupid to put up a nice description, then
> >>>> their skin might not be worth it anyways :p
> >>>>
> >>>> KKRT
> >>> A description should just describe the screen shot.. Like "A dark
> >>> skin, based on skin X by Y." Maybe tags would be more appropriate,
> >>> like single words from specific categories. And have a system of
> >>> inheritence. So a skinner can choose skin(s) that he/she based the
> >>> work on. With that sort of info we can have a script write the
> >>> description itself.
> >>>
> >>> Blah probably a bit much,
> >>
> >>
> >> Lol, no, I like that! Maybe the automated description would be a
> >> little
> >> control-freakish, but I think tags is a great idea, and inheritance
> >> also-
> >> this way if users like the skin but think maybe it's not quite to
> >> their
> >> taste, they can look at its 'ancestors' as it were :)
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Tom Hennigan
> >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Over the summer I would very much like to create aMSN-Extras
> >>>>>>> online.
> >>>>>>> It would be community maintained, so that people could upload
> >>>>>>> updates
> >>>>>>> of their skins/plugins directly there. I think this will be the
> >>>>>>> most
> >>>>>>> effective way to do it.. Some examples from other projects:
> >>>>>>> http://www.adiumxtras.com/, http://www.gnome-look.org/
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am willing to take this on, but I have 2 heavy weeks of exams
> >>>>>>> ahead,
> >>>>>>> so it won't be online for maybe 3-4 weeks...
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> What do you think?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> - Tom
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 6 Jun 2008, at 05:54, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't know where our skin and plugins maintainer is
> >>>>>>>> hiding, but I think it's time someone took care of posting
> >>>>>>>> to the website all the skins and plugins that were submitted
> >>>>>>>> on the forums. There are a lot of new skins/plugins and I
> >>>>>>>> think that many users will enjoy them, if only they could
> >>>>>>>> find them...
> >>>>>>>> I also think we should show the screenshot of the skins
> >>>>>>>> directly in the skins.php website (instead of having to
> >>>>>>>> click on 'screenshot'), that will make it much easier for
> >>>>>>>> the users to effectively 'browse' the available skins...
> >>>>>>>> clicking on the screenshot would show it at full resolution
> >>>>>>>> of course.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Who's up for doing that ?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> p.s.: as a side note, I finished reverse engineering the ICE
> >>>>>>>> protocol used by MSN for the audio conversations, all that
> >>>>>>>> is left now is to implement 'msn compatibility' support in
> >>>>>>>> libnice and upgrade to the newest farsight... will be done
> >>>>>>>> sometime soon. For those who don't know, this will allow NAT
> >>>>>>>> traversal so audio conversations will work a lot better...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks!
> >>>>>>>> KaKaRoTo
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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