[GMG-Devel] Fwd: Re: About Blogging System Project

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Spaetz meant to send this to the list but accidentally only sent it to
me, so forwarding! :)

Sounds like we're on the same page.

Sebastian Spaeth writes:

> On 16.04.2013 21:12, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> Greg Grossmeier kindly brought up something on IRC that is a concern of
>> mine as well: scope creep.
>> 
>> As brought up on IRC, the biggest reason *against* blogging as part of
>> MediaGoblin is scope creep. 
>
> Yes, there is plenty to do in our core areas (search and federation to
> mention the most important ones). So I am all for adding (if at all) a
> rather zero-bloat blog plugin only as an option.
>
>> Here are my thoughts on how to do a zero-bloat blogging system in
>> MediaGoblin that respects the architecture we have.
>> 
>>  - Blogposts are media entries, and don't try to pretend otherwise.
>>    They show up in galleries, maybe with a special icon, or maybe a user
>>    can supply a thumb; whatever.  If you don't like this too much, don't
>>    use MediaGoblin as a blog!  (or read my next two bullet points ;))
>
> Yes, that is the simplest option and it is actually the one that I
> currently favor (it requires NO changes to the core). One thing the blog
> plugin would bring in addition is a template for a "gallery view" that
> filters by media type (ie shows only blog posts).
>
>>    The most complicated part of this is how to get appropriate
>>    javascript into the {% head %} element... I have an idea for this
>>    that involves each media type declaring that bit and then looping
>>    through the head of all templates with what's needed here, and this
>>    also can work with the {% include %} stuff... I can explain on IRC
>>    better though. :)
>
> Write, perhaps each mediatype can simply declare the name of a "js" and
> "css" template name that is being {%include ...%} and the template just
> groups and includes all required files once... Or even better, our
> gallery view should not depend on media-type-specific code :-).
>
>
>>  - Lastly, for those who want the "deviantart" style of having the
>>    gallery of their images on their homepage but the blogposts listed in
>>    a separate section off to the side, we can have a plugin that mangles
>>    the user's homepage, and if they want, other pages too to do
>>    filtering on that SQL statement and etc.  I think it wouldn't be
>>    pretty, but if people really want that, they can do it in a plugin
>>    without messing up the MediaGoblin main code if we provide the
>>    appropriate hooks.
>
> Right, the blog-post only gallery can come as a separate plugin
> template. The "supress blog posts from user media timeline" is left to
> masochistic readers for homework.
>
>> How does that sound?  I realize it's a bit of a braindump ;)
>
> Sensible. A blog plugin makes a nice gsoc project, but otherwise we
> should focus on core things such as search and federation :-).
>
> Sebastian