Hi Matthew, This sounds like a prefect way to start. I especially like the idea that people could add their own tags if needed - it makes things much more flexible and could show us which direction we need to go.
Can you guess how much work it would be to set up something like this? -- Ken On Tuesday 02 October 2007 20:21:34 Matthew Nuzum wrote: > OK, here are the technical problems I'm proposing to solve with this > solution: > > * A place for art-team members to post artwork and theme related > resources (images, sound files, icon themes, archives) in such a way > that they are accessible to all in the community > * Other art-team members (maybe community members) can post comments > * comments can have attachments > * New revisions of artwork can be attached and tracked in > chronological order (i.e. original posted, comments posted, new > revision posted in response to comments, more comments, etc. all show > in order) > > * A way to categorize these posts, suggested categories could be > * One of: > * Community contributed graphics > * Gutsy > * Hardy > * And one or more of: > * wall paper > * usplash > * icon theme > * etc. > * And a "free tagging" field where contributors can suggest their > own additional tags > > Drupal can do all of the above, also, there is discussion about adding > openid support to launchpad > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1169> in which case we may > be able to authenticate against launchpad to ensure art-team members > have special permissions. > > Additionally, Drupal provides RSS support, including separate RSS > feeds on a per-category basis, so their could be an RSS feed for > artwork for Hardy, and a separate one for community contributed works. > > Finally, the canonical sysadmins are familiar with supporting Drupal > and I expect little complaint from them if we ask to have them install > it. > > For an example, see my blog, specifically this post here: > http://www.bearfruit.org/blog/2007/08/21/shooting-a-cake-and-eating-it-too > (sorry for the shameless self-promotion) > > I don't have "attachments for comments" enabled, but you get the > general idea... the post can contain a mix of (some) html and any > number of attachments. There is ample support for categorizing and > categories can be listed in the left hand nav. > -- > Matthew Nuzum > newz2000 on freenode -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
