Andrea, I would very much like to adopt your approach. However, I don't understand how Ubuntu Friendly could get the question IDs back from Launchpad. Currently, I see two ways for Ubuntu Friendly to create questions in Launchpad:
1. Ubuntu Friendly provides a link to Launchpad answers where users can ask a question under a given project with the title potentially pre-filled with the model name. However, once the user clicks on the link, I don't understand how the ID can be retrieved by Ubuntu Friendly. 2. Ubuntu Friendly provides a form that uses the Launchpad API to create a question in Launchpad answers. Then, the API would certainly return the question ID that could be inserted in our own database. However, I don't understand how the user can authenticate so that the question is asked as himself. How did you envision this working? * Andrea Corbellini <corbellini.and...@gmail.com> [2012-01-18 15:40 +0100]: > You could also put the questions IDs (which are immutable) into your own > database and create the associations question<->system inside your db. > I think this would be the best and safer solution. > > On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 11:43 -0500, Marc Tardif wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > 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? > > > > 1. http://friendly.ubuntu.com -- 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
