Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
>
>> - modify mugshot.org/applications (to become
>> online.gnome.org/applications) to support web apps
>
>> - make online.gnome.org and mugshot.org work as OpenID providers
>
> Quick Q about these so I have my facts straight: Do you intend for mugshot
> to be a branded 'frontend' to online.gnome.org? Which data will be stored on
> either side? Or will the users and data be separate and/or federated?
>
There is probably a short and a long term answer.
Right now what we're doing is just adding more jsps to mugshot.org that
will be served when the server is reached from online.gnome.org. These
jsps will not have the Stacker, just an "edit my account" page and a
"login/signup" page. They will have GNOME branding instead of Mugshot.
Bryan is making mockups.
The backing database is still the same, so an account on
online.gnome.org is the same as one on mugshot.org and the data is in
one big soup.
What this gives us is online.gnome.org by the end of the week or so and
BigBoard etc. can start to be powered by online.gnome.org.
Longer term we can split things up more fundamentally. The idea is that
Mugshot is the "stacker"/"watch what's happening online" site and will
be parallel to / on similar footing with other third party web sites we
integrate with.
online.gnome.org will have /applications, storage for user settings,
your avatar/name, and other important desktop backend features.
Basically online.gnome.org will be required for online desktop (but not
for GNOME, if you just stick to "classic desktop mode"), while
mugshot.org will be the stacker app and you only use it if you want the
stacker feature. But mugshot.org isn't "core" in any way, it's just
another web site we integrate with - though an open source one.
It isn't 100% clear yet how the details work out but that's the general
idea that makes sense to me.
The long-term location of the servers isn't clear yet, and we'll
probably also want to make the servers a test case for a shiny new Free
Terms of Service / Open Service Definition that isn't defined yet.
The two items you quoted from my post, in more detail, are:
- right now we "package" some web apps like GMail in the
online-desktop module, adding .desktop files and MIME handlers
and so forth, but we don't track these web apps on
mugshot.org/applications. So we should track them, probably based on
browser title (but never sending the browser title to the server)
- there are Java libraries for OpenID; we should make your profile page
on both mugshot.org and online.gnome.org act as an OpenID provider,
so people can use these for OpenID if they want. Also, this would
let us federate with something like the abicollab site, potentially,
*waves hands wildly*
Havoc
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