Re: [Straw-devel] categories from OPML

[Jan Alonzo]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 04:25, Juri Pakaste wrote:

<snip>

> - Open questions
> 
> There were a few in the chapters above, but at the moment the main one
> for me is this: how strong should the bond between a category and a
> single OPML file be?
> 
>  - Should a category be able to mirror more than one OPML file?
>   - This might be nice in some circumstances, although I think this
> would be pretty rare. We should probably avoid making very strong
> assumptions that make this impossible - unless the decision is to
> strongly bind categories and OPML files together - but I don't know if
> it's necessary to implement this feature.

IMO, One category should only mirror one OPML file. 

> 
>  - Should a category mirroring an OPML file allow to user add other
> feeds to it?
>   - This is a more realistic concern. I subscribe to some feeds I
> categorize as "Gnome" feeds that aren't in Planet GNOME. It would be
> good if it was possible to categorize them together. However, there are
> some cases where this might be followed by surprising behaviour, unless
> we are careful. Say I'm subscribed to feed A that is contained in
> category B mirroring OPML file C. I've added A to B manually, it isn't
> contained in C. Now C adds it. A week afterwards the maintainer of C
> decides he made a mistake and drops A from it. However, Straw probably
> shouldn't drop A from B at this point, right? There might be similar
> corner cases.

Right. We should preserve the state of the categories before the
mirroring I guess. 

> 
> Any comments? At the moment, I'm planning to implement this for 0.24.

Great. That would be nice. :)


Cheers,
-- 
Jan Alonzo <address@hidden>

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