start.fedoraproject.org

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Mel Chua wrote:

> > Done:
> >
> > http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/new-startfpo.png
> >
> > It's available for testing / viewing in the start.fp.o-news branch in the
> > fedora-web git repo.
> >
> > Every time the site builds, it pulls in these RSS feeds:
> >
> > http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/fpn.rss
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/fdn.rss
> >
> > It only displays 3 news items a piece, you get the idea.  Hopefully if no
> > one complains we can get this in to place and tested.
>
> Implementation idea for feeds: can haz identi.ca?
>
> 22:54 < mchua> mmcgrath: Looks good to me - the shortness actually
> reminds me of twitter feeds
> 22:54 < mchua> or well, identi.ca
> 22:54 < mchua> so that might be a quick and dirty way of getting
> Something That Works to pop in.
> 22:54 < mmcgrath> mchua: yeah, I wasn't sure how long those should be.
> 22:55 < mchua> mmcgrath: I think the one-terse-sentence-(fragment) is
> about right.
> 22:55 < mchua> Then we can link to longer articles if they're available
> - but identi.ca can provide the first-run feeds in, so it could
> theoretically work now pre-FI launch.
>
> So I poked these into being:
>
> http://identi.ca/fedoradistronews/
> (feed is at
> http://identi.ca/api/statuses/friends_timeline/fedoradistronews.atom)
>
> http://identi.ca/fedoraprojectnews
> (feed is at
> http://identi.ca/api/statuses/friends_timeline/fedoraprojectnews.atom)
>
> I cloned the news points Mike picked (more or less) so if someone will
> try them out in the start.fp.o-news branch in the fedora-web git repo,
> they should, theoretically, Just Work. Iirc, we'd need to ask for
> permission to use the Fedora logo as an avatar - but that's the only
> further "setup" we'd have.
>

Hmmmm.  This one's not quite looking right:

http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/new-startfpo1.png

Notice the titles.  I'll see if there's something I can do on my end.

> Both accounts are currently rather bottleneck-y (i.e. if I get hit by a
> bus, nobody else could get to those accounts) since they both go to my
> email address; we need to figure out a system for handling those sorts
> of things in general (or if we have one already, I need to learn to use it).
>

That's the nice thing about rss feeds, we can pretty well move them around
all willy nilly :).

	-Mike