user-added planet script

Jeffrey Tadlock linux at elfshadow.net
Thu May 8 16:06:51 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Should I just have the user put one (or more) planet config stanzas
> > in a file in their homedir or have them list just the blog feed url, the
> > hackergotchi url and their name and try to parse that out?
> >
> > I'm inclined to the former. So a user could just have a .planet file
> > that has:
> >
> > [http://skvidal.wordpress.com/feed/]
> > name = Seth Vidal
> > face = http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/skvidal.png

I would lean towards using a .planet file with a config stanza similar
to your example.  Easy to read and easy to document on the wiki for
the format.

> I was thinking of just having a 'ignore users' config option for the
> script so it would just skip their dirs if there was a problem.

Having this as an option would be a good thing as well, should the
need arise in the future.

~Jeffrey




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