On 09.11.2008 19:25, Chris Nolan wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> There is a API afaics, as bugzilla, bodhi, pkdb and other services in
> Fedora all can interact with FAS. So it likely shouldn't be to hard
> what you want to do; maybe you can some of the infos you need on
>
https://fedorahosted.org/fas/ ; otherwise ask ToshioKuratomi (
> abadger1999 in #fedora-devel; see also
> /http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ToshioKuratomi)
Thanks, I spoke with Toshio and he was most helpful. From the info he
gave me it should be relatively straightforward to make Wordpress
authenticate against FAS. That is the first step, and then (optionally)
we could only allow people within a certain FAS group to make posts.
Potentially we could even map various groups within FAS to different
roles within WP.
If others agree that a blog would be useful for rpmfusion (I personally
think its a great idea and would be an excellent tool for communicating
with end users) then I'll get busy putting together a WP plugin for
authenticating against FAS.
I like the idea, nevertheless the big question that springs to my mind
is: Do people really want to make posts (aka. blog about stuff that
happens)? And do they not only want to, but actually do it later?
I mean, everyone of us that is a Fedora contributor already could have
simply done it: Set up a blog somewhere, add its rss feed to Fedora
planet and post about interesting things that happen in RPM Fusion (or
dribble/frehsrpms/livna beforehand). Nearly none of the current
contributors did that afaics.
CU
knurd