[Pdweb] Tracks as Topics

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Though at first trial this seems nice, I am skeptical in the long run.  
What's the difference between this and running a search for the word 
"track"?  As far as I can tell, the only difference is the link in the 
nav.  What if people use the word "track" for other meanings, or don't 
intend that page to be published as a music track.  For example, if I 
posted a patch and described it as a "multi-track mixer", it would show 
up under the Tracks section even though its not a track at all.  I 
think a page that is writable/publishable by all members would be a 
better solution, but maybe this "Topic" feature could be honed.

Also, following the plone URL guidelines, I changed the file name from 
"Tracks" to "tracks".  I can't seem to find the link, but somewhere in 
the docs for Zope/CMF/Plone it said that all "Names"/urls should not 
use upper case or dashes.  I agree with this, since it makes the urls 
memorable, and makes things clean.

In any case, I am glad to see stuff progressing.  The community and 
news sections needs to be built out.

.hc


On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 11:47 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht 
wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I added a so called "Topic" to the community area on pd.org.
> A Topic collects content items according to self-defined rules. The
> new Topic collects tracks. The current rule set is:
>
>   * Content type must be "File"
>   * Content description must include the word "track".
>
> This seems to work just fine. I added a short experiment "track" to my
> home folder, that follows above rules, and as soon as it was
> "published" by me it appeard in the "Tracks" topic.
>
> You can do this, too, and become famous ;)
>
> The Track Topic is available at:
>
>  http://testpd.iem.at/community/Tracks/
>
> I think, this might be a good way to collect content. It might be cool
> to have a content types like "Track" or "Patch" but I don't know yet
> how this is done.
>
> But we should fill this up with Topics for patches, images and so on.
>
> ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
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