On 11/09/2011 21:13, William Tracy wrote:
This may not advance this particular discussion very much, but:
What I would love to see, and what I'm actually surprised that nobody
in the FOSS community has built yet, is a discussion board system with
a separated back-end that can be attached to multiple front-ends.
The same install could have a web-based front-end and an email
front-end, and both would be first-class citizens. (Bonus points if
the different front-ends can share account information, so you can
post the email interface from home, and the web interface on a public
computer somewhere, and the system will understand that both messages
come from the same account.)
From there, you could extend the system with an arbitrary number of
front-ends: A client that pushes new thread notifications to Twitter?
Sure. A bot that pushes new post information to IRC? Sure. A client
that automatically generates a new post with every push to revision
control? Sure. Multiple web front-ends, because someone wants an app
written in PHP, and someone else wants an app built with Ruby on
Rails? Sure.
I already have enough projects on my plate, but if anyone out there
wants to build this, I might be able to pitch in. :-)
William Tracy
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I definitely like where you're going with that idea. It's ambitious but
luckily bits and pieces already exist and could be leveraged. I'm not
sure this is something we can just slap together for the new LFS server
during its initial launch due to the time involved. But I do like it.
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Gerard
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