Thanks for the feed back - it doesn't seem to be working correctly does
it, I'll be working on the code for the actual syndication program this
weekend.
Let me tell you what it is I am trying to achieve here as you ( along
with the other OpenOffice.org core groups ) are one of prime targets.
What I want to do is find a convenient and efficient way to build a feed
back loop from the forum to the core groups,. development, QA, UX,
documentation.
Looking at what the package offered already:
Under OOoForum one could only subscribe for email notification to a
subject - this has been expanded with the new forum so that one can
subscribe for email notification to a forum or forums as a whole. A
little better, but much to much noise as you get an email for every
single post and under the current setup you do not actually get the text
of the post, just notification that something was updated.
One ideas was to modify the base code to act more like JForum used at
the SUN support forums so that the email carried the text part of the
message. not bad, but still a lot of noise, IMO. Although the ideas is
still on the list of future updates.
Looking at how to enhance that:
The issue of triaging, if you will, what is sent is I believe the first
thing to address. For this I propose to add a feature to the board, this
week, that will allow Tags to be added to individual subject threads. I
am planning on two different levels of tagging.
The first is a user generated tag - ala Drupal, Joomla et al - and then
display a tag cloud at the bottom of the pages. Rather standard practice
these days it seems. Users can click on a tag and this generates a
search output for items so tagged. ( actually this is to be implemented
after the next tag type )
The second level are tags available to Admin and Moderator group members
only. What I was thinking here was that we could mark things that we
think have some relevance beyond the forum. Maybe a subject thread that
looks like a good candidate for a How to, or Tutorial. Maybe one that
points to an Issue that should be opened, or is another example of an
instance of an open issue that might help nail down what is causing
it...I am really open for ideas on how this might work best - in fact
the different groups need to be active with the forum folks to make this
work no doubt.
The final step would be to update the syndication program so that
someone can setup a feed that would return only those items with a
particular tag or tags. This syndication function is implemented as a
stand alone php program and reads directly form the database, no actual
interaction with the phpBB code at all - so I can update this as needed
without concern for breaking the actual site. The tagging function of
course has to be integrated into the phpBB UI.
Anyway - that is what I am thinking about and shooting for.
Drew
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