505848 - Feed non-QMO blog posts to QMO blog thread

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(quality.mozilla.org :: Website, defect, P1)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

I think it would be great for anyone on a separate blog, to automatically have their blog post feed into the QMO blog.  users with a non-qmo blog can just categorize or tag their post, and it would get picked up on QMO.   This way we dont have to double post our blog to our own site AND to qmo.  

Also, not everyone reads planet, but may only read QMO.  Planet picks up some of our feeds with the "mozilla" category, so maybe just add one called "qmo" and get picked up there.  The only question i have is we dont want do double post to planet, so if i were to use category "qmo", would qmo first get feeded my blog, and then in turn feed to planet?

Tony

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Also, aakash informs me that this is different than bug 481923, as that one talks about a blogroll.

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

We need to figure out a couple of things:

1. Can we feed into QMO's blog?
2. If number 1 is true, then will those posts feed onto QMO also feed into Planet on the behalf of QMO?
3. If number 2 is true, then can we disable those feeds from being populated with QMO's feed onto Planet?

Paul, Tomcat, who might be able to answer the last question? maybe someone from IT?

Comment 3

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

So here's the status of this (as we discussed in our QMOdev meeting last week)
* We want non-QMO blog posts to appear on the QMO blog thread on http://quality.mozilla.org/blog
* The easiest approach to this would be to have a separate section on the same page, called "External / Outside QMO" or something. Integrating them seamlessly shouldn't be too hard, but it may be helpful for users to be able to distinguish easily.
* We can pull feeds from other blogs onto QMO without forwarding them to Planet

I think we shouldn't allow for users to add their feed to planet separately. For that purpose alone, they might as well go there and ask to be added.

What we should decide next is where would the non-QMO blog posts be placed on QMO.

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

The non-QMO blog posts should be placed on the same page. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a blog aggregator like Planet.

Would that be possible? If not, should I make a mock-up for this to define this?

Comment 5

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

Mockup for ideal implementation.

Keep in mind that the hard part is mixing QMO blog posts with non-QMO. If we keep them separate, it should be easy wherever we place them.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

That's a great request Tony! Given the mockups by Aakash which could really be uploaded to this bug, I would prefer the first version with the top heading bar. It's directly in the view when opening the page. Having it as bullets on the right side I suspect that everyone will find those options.

Comment 7

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm a bit partial to the first option too. As for the mocks not being up on this bug, I actually just want to choose one mock and have that image uploaded to this bug for consistency's sake :).

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

A question beside the mockups. With this feature implemented will everyone be able to select the appropriate feed via the RSS icon in the location bar too? There should be 3 items listed which correlates with the items in the heading feed bar.

Comment 9

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

What if we linkified the RSS button icon to be the feed link (where it would change when the filter had changed). Also, we can do the same with location bar as well. We don't have the time to make it all ajax-y and have the content in the blog dynamic right now.

Comment 10

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Paul, what do you think about the last comment?

Comment 11

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

I forgot the mockup so you should attach it here. If you mean what I think: clicking on one of the links in the list "QMO" "non-QMO" or "ALL" would change the RSS feed to the left - that should be okay to do. I have to take a look at this to know more. However, give my time this week, I'm fairly sure I won't be able to do it if it's not a simple change, so either we delay 1.1 or we postpone this bug for 1.2.

Comment 12

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: mock screenshot

It should look something like this. The top bar doesn't have to be an image. Also, there should be an inversion effect when a certain feed is selected (All by default).

Comment 13

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm moving this to 1.2 thanks to timing and resource constraints

Comment 14

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: new mock with subscriptions snippet look-a-like (not perfect...)

Each linked name on the subscription snippet should link to that person's respective blog and the feed icon next to each name should link to the feed of that person's blog.


As for the administration of this snippet, the contents should be coded in a way that allows any admin to add or remove each individual blog entry via a checkbox on each user's account. From there, its up to the administrator to add in the blog url and blog feed url after the check box has been checked. 

As for layout of the list, place in alphabetical order with an un-ordered list.

Paul and Tomcat, is there anything I'm missing?

Comment 15

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

(In reply to comment #14)
> Created an attachment (id=406481) [details]
> new mock with subscriptions snippet look-a-like (not perfect...)
> 
> Each linked name on the subscription snippet should link to that person's
> respective blog and the feed icon next to each name should link to the feed of
> that person's blog.
> 
> 
> As for the administration of this snippet, the contents should be coded in a
> way that allows any admin to add or remove each individual blog entry via a
> checkbox on each user's account. From there, its up to the administrator to add
> in the blog url and blog feed url after the check box has been checked. 
> 
> As for layout of the list, place in alphabetical order with an un-ordered list.
> 
> Paul and Tomcat, is there anything I'm missing?

some personal feedback on the screenshot:
- display the full name of the bloglist on the right side
- move the rss icon to the left of the names
- for the QMO/Community/All image,
** will the appropriate feed be highlighted?
** i think the icon is to colorful and big.  can we make this cleaner?
** I dont know what the RSS icon on the image is for.
** The actual word "QMO" is confusing to me what that button should be blogrolling.

Comment 16

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Thanks for the feedback, Tony. I hope the following notes about implementation will help diffuse a lot of those points you made.

Here's what's needed to implement the page:

- add a list of blog links and corresponding rss feeds via the rss image links to a right-column snippet called "Planet QMO Subscriptions" (include QMO as a link there as well with its rss fee link)
- aggregate blogs mentioned on right-column snippet to the middle column
- aggregate to the page and NOT http://quality.mozilla.org/rss.xml
- top bar will NOT have the rss feed icon. The actions it performs are the following:
** Click on "QMO" shows QMO blog entries from http://quality.mozilla.org/rss.xml
** Click on "Community" shows posts via every rss link listed in the subscriptions snippet
** Click on "All" shows both QMO and Community people's rss feeds
** By default, "QMO" is selected. It's not shown in the mock, but the text should be underlined.

Comment 17

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This bug is being moved to a resolved state of invalid due to one of the following reasons:

- we're moving to wordpress and so all drupal cruft is not going to be fixed
- the feature is not supported on the new qmo, at least for this release.

Comment 18

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This bug is being moved to a resolved state of invalid due to one of the following reasons:

- we're moving to wordpress and so all drupal cruft is not going to be fixed
- the feature is not supported on the new qmo, at least for this release.