common theme for domain list cont'd

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:55 -0400, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:

> 
> Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but wouldn't it be nicer if the
> actual feed we subscribed to allowed us to exclude people?  For
> example, I read pfpo via Liferea, so I don't visit the actual web page
> with my browser that often.  Maybe I want to have a customized feed
> where I can choose which feeds I want to see, or more usefully, which
> feeds I want to exclude.  I remember a while back there was some
> hubbub about foreign-language blogs appearing in pfpo, and some people
> didn't like that.  Well, instead of making it an issue of xenophobia,
> we can just make it a preference by excluding blogs in our customized
> subscription, which could be tied to our Fedora Account.
> 
> Yes, this obviously will complicate the application a bit, but I am
> not familiar with the software used for pfpo - maybe there is a
> feature that enables this that already exists?
> 
> By the way, I'm referring to subscribed feeds, and not syndicated
> ones.  So, like, my personal blog is syndicated on pfpo, but my
> subscription would be to all of the blogs that are syndicated by pfpo.
> So, maybe the URL I subscribe to would be
> http://planet.fedoraproject.org/customfeeds/basilgohar, which, based
> on my preferences, include or exclude certain blogs.

Generating the feeds like that based on custom outputs is not, that I've
seen, something that venus can do, not for the rss feeds. The problem is
we'd be generating a different feed per user which makes it a bit hurky.
Alternatively, we'd have to do it via a cgi of some kind which is just
going to be VERY VERY SLOW and resource intensive.

I'll look into it but I'm not particularly hopeful about it.

-sv