On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:28 -0500, Marc Tardif wrote: > 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?
I was thinking about point 2. I'm not familiar with the Launchpad API, but I thought it was possible to authorize Ubuntu Friendly with OAuth or something. Probably I'm confusing the Launchpad API with the Ubuntu One API? Reading Curtis' comment it seems so. _______________________________________________ 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
