Ramereth suggested I post this here incase any infra people have any input on this. Due to the feature requests I've been recieving for Planet Gentoo, I am thinking of recruiting a few people to create a new Planet webapp so that some of these feature ideas can be implemented. Currently, Planet Gentoo is powered by a python script in a crobjob. Every hour, it downloads all weblog content from all the contributors, sorts all the articles by date/time posted, and saves the 50 most recent ones into a html doc. This html doc is saved into an area served up by apache. Users are requesting features such as search, content archives, etc. Developers have suggested things like herds.xml integration, so you could say "show me weblog content of the apache maintainers". These sorts of features are not practical in the current setup that we have. I am planning to post a message to gentoo-dev, my weblog, etc, seeking people (existing developers or not) interested in writing a new blog-aggregator webapp which could offer some of these features, or adapting a suitable existing system (if there are any). Implementation details are not clear at the moment, as that depends on the volunteers - I'm not planning to get involved in the development. However, I envision it would be some kind of database-driven webapp. Ultimately, if it works out, this would result in a new open source project, possibly hosted by gentoo, possibly resulting in a few new developers. warbler.gentoo.org would then run this new webapp instead of the current python system (www.planetplanet.org), once it is ready. Any comments?
sounds fine with me as long as it doesn't require any apps that we don't currently offer/support (like a non-apache httpd). If it does, then I'd like to better understand the requirements before committing to anything. Also, we'd want the security audit team to bless the code before putting it into production, but that should be easy to do.
Sent out a mail to gentoo-dev Will get back to you when we know which languages/platforms will be required to host it.
