* curtis Hovey <curtis.ho...@canonical.com> [2012-01-16 12:13 -0500]: > On 01/16/2012 11:43 AM, Marc Tardif wrote: > > The Ubuntu Friendly website [1] would like to enable people to ask > > questions about systems and we would like to use Launchpad > > Answers. The typical use case would look like: > > > > 1. User finds system on Ubuntu Friendly; > > 2. User creates a question about the system; > > 3. Other users can see the question and answers for the system. > > > > The problem is with the third step: how can we get the list of questions > > that were created for a given system? We thought about creating a > > title for the question when redirecting to Launchpad that could then be > > searched easily, but the user can then decide to change the title. We > > also thought about first creating a bug with a tag before creating the > > question, but that seems rather circumvoluted and not sure whether it > > would even work. > > > > So, what would be a reasonable solution to cover the above use case? > > Titles are rarely changed. Tags would be nice, but Answers does not > support them. Questions can be linked to FAQs though, and that might > help to locate questions. > > Answers has an incomplete API that might help (the Purple Squad exported > the query methods to solve some maintenance problems). You can get a lot > of information about questions from the user and project perspectives. I > think exporting IFAQSet and IFAQ to permit searching and getting the > related_questions would help you. This is an example of what you can do now.
If I understand correctly, the Ubuntu Friendly website would provide a link to Launchpad Answers for asking questions that would set the model name in the title: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly/+addquestion?field.title=Question+about+Inspiron+1520 Then, the Ubuntu Friendly website could provide a link to search for related questions by attempting to match the same model name: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly/+questions?field.search_text=Inspiron+1520 Assuming that people aren't likely to change the title and that full text search on the model name might return a few unrelated questions, this approach might be good enough. -- Marc Tardif <marc.tar...@canonical.com> Freenode: cr3, Jabber: c...@jabber.org 1024D/72679CAD 09A9 D871 F7C4 A18F AC08 674D 2B73 740C 7267 9CAD _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
