user-added planet script

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > Hey folks, 
> >    I'm working on a script to collect blog/name/hackergotchi entries
> > from users homedirs on fedorapeople.org and assemble them into a config
> > file for planet to use. All the bits about grabbing the files are
> > clearly simple. My only question is this:
> >   - Should I just have the user put one (or more) planet config stanzas
> > in a file in their homedir or have them list just the blog feed url, the
> > hackergotchi url and their name and try to parse that out?
> > 
> > I'm inclined to the former. So a user could just have a .planet file
> > that has:
> > 
> > [http://skvidal.wordpress.com/feed/]
> > name = Seth Vidal
> > face = http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/skvidal.png
> 
> Would there be a good way to blacklist entries if we needed to in
> a rush? Or would we just edit the master config and disable the
> script?
> 

I was thinking of just having a 'ignore users' config option for the
script so it would just skip their dirs if there was a problem.

-sv