Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for developers for a new 'Planet' web-app

[Paweł Madej]

Daniel Drake wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As the Planet Gentoo admin (http://planet.gentoo.org), I often get
> feature ideas and requests for ways to enhance the Planet website.
>
> Right now, a python script called "planet" (www.planetplanet.org)
> powers the site. planet is a nice simple script, which is invoked by
> cron every hour - it fetches the weblog content for all the developers
> it knows about, finds the most recent 60 articles, and formats them
> into a HTML page which is saved to an area of disk served up by apache
> at http://planet.gentoo.org.
>
> planet is a nice system and makes it dead easy to set up a
> Planet-style aggregator. However the feature requests that I am
> recieving go out of the scope of what a simple script can do.
>
> Examples of what people are requesting:
> - Ability to browse the 'archives' (i.e. the content which has dropped
> off the
>   end of the page, which planet discards)
> - Ability to search the content and the archives
> - Ability to browse by Gentoo herd, i.e. view the weblogs of the apache
>   maintainers.
>
> I'm seeking people who would be interested in developing and
> maintaining a more dynamic Planet web-application which could handle
> features such as these.
>
> I hope that this will create a new open-source project (or an effort
> to extend an existing system, if there are any) which would be used to
> power Planet Gentoo in the future, and be easily available for other
> communities who wish to use it.
>
> I envision this being a database-driven application but all
> implementation details will be up to the volunteers who take up the
> task :)
> Unfortunately I don't have time to get heavily involved with the
> development, but I will "oversee" the project.
>
> This is open to everyone (not only Gentoo developers...) - infact I'd
> like to see this bringing a few more people into Gentoo development.
>
> If you are interested, please send me an email (dsd@g.o) with
> the following info:
>
>  1. Your preferred web development languages/platforms/etc.
>  2. Other languages/platforms you would be prepared to work with
> should the
>     majority of other volunteers wish to work with those instead.
>  3. Your previous experience developing web-applications and working with
>     related software (don't worry if this isn't much).
>  4. Any experience you have with blogs/aggregation/RSS/...
>
> Feel free to spam me with related ideas/comments if you have any :)
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel

As i suppose i could help some programming with that site but not 
earlier than on november. If you will need some help then we could talk 
more about then.

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Paul
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