On 10/24/05, Aaron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I do have to say the current website maintainers are rather reluctant > to completely change over the whole website. My approach has been to > concentrate on just the bike bulletin/calendar. It turns out this may be the > heart of the website so it's not so easy to surgically replace. But I > keep trying....
There's no reason that the event management tools have to be the "heart" of the website; we've made them primary on the pdxruby site only because that and the membership roster the primary functionality we needed. > Two things, the pdx.rb/app/models seem to want members and thresholds > which I haven't seen required yet for a bike ride. The bar may indeed be set somewhat high for Shift events. However, one could imagine basically just removing the password requirement, and allowing people to "sign up" as members with only an email address, or even a "handle" and optional mail address for notification. > The RSS feeds are attached to members. I wonder how the RSS could > be attached to events in two different ways. Either as they are announced > or published as they occur. The timing of the latter is the neat > trick and would > be cool in all cases. The RSS feeds in the current code are indeed pulled from members' individual weblogs. One feature that hasn't been implemented for the current site, but would indeed be cool, is an RSS feed of "upcoming" events, similar to the iCalendar output. Since all the backend logic already exists for getting an arbitrary-sized list of upcoming events, though, it shouldn't be more than an afternoon's work. > I'd like to abstract the .sql setup scripts into migrations so allow > it to be deployed > on postgres. The current SQL code is written for Postgres, actually, though the database-specific code is limited to 'SERIAL' column types for the table primary IDs. > Are any of the website shifties on this list? Not that I've heard from; I work in the same office as the guy who maintains the Shift forums, and obviously have some contact with other Shifties via the mailing list. > Lennon, I heard from Cate that you are doing the PDF conversion > currently for the bike bulletin. That's great. OpenOffice to the rescue again. > [...] This is something I will be able to evaluate. I've been listening > to conversations from a group of shift2bikes people since august. That's a great bit of information to have. I suppose that If it looks like we're going ahead with this, I'll probably have to stop missing all the Shift planning meetings. We still haven't made any real effort to "productize" the current codebase; it would be nice to start re-factoring things into components and plugins that could be re-used for Shift, FreeGeek, or anyone else who wanted them. Of course, we should probably finish the current TODO list, and maybe even push the dev site into production some day. There's nothing like real users finding out how broken things are to instill a proper degree of humility and motivation. -- Lennon rcoder.net _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
