[publican-list] Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)
Jeffrey Fearn
jfearn at redhat.com
Thu Oct 21 06:03:31 UTC 2010
Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
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> Jared pointed out a neat "feature" O'Reilly is trying out called Open
> Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)[1]. This allows readers to leave
> comments on a particular paragraph of a document.
>
> Contrary to its name, OFPS is NOT open source. There are other projects
> that are open source that do the same thing. The one I saw listed was
> called Wooki[2].
>
> I'm wondering if something similar could be implemented within Publican
> to be used, at a minimum, in our draft documentation. It might make it
> easier for people to let us know of problems without filing a bug.
> Because it would take less time to leave feedback we might find that we
> receive more than we currently do through BZ.
>
> [1] http://labs.oreilly.com/ofps.html
> [2] http://wookicentral.com
One of the founding constraints to Publican design is that there is no
server side scripting. I don't see how you could do this without doing
server side scripting and processing of some kind. It would require a
major change in direction for Publican to become a web service instead
of a static content provider.
Cheers, Jeff.
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Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
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