[publican-list] Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

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On 10/21/2010 02:03 AM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> 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.
> 

Jeff,

Yeah if Publican could maybe not implement the solution but provide the
hooks for such a solution I think this could work without having
Publican become a larger monster.  Having the hooks available would mean
we wouldn't be locked into a particular solution, which is good.

- --Eric
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