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.
This is in the TODO, as is an RSS feed for subscriptions.
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.
There is some migration-type-stuff already. I am not sure how it works,
but Ben did it, so it probably does whatever it is supposed to do.
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.
Sounds like it's time for another hackfest. Commits have been a little
slow recently... We have a hackfest for the Katrina stuff upcoming this
weekend, maybe we can start to think about something the weekend after
or sooner. The goal of the next hackfest should be chipping items off
the TODO (including testing, ugh), and pushing the site to production.
Also, I love the idea of "productizing" the current code base, but I
don't have a very good idea as to how to go about it.
Anyone interested in this should join the pdxruby-dev list, where this
discussion probably belongs.
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Caleb Phillips
IT Specialist
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