[OSM-talk] User diary enhancements, subscriptions, Facebook/Twitter integration

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion of enhancing the user diary system? I
> couldn't find any discussions on the wiki or lists, but please point
> me to them if they exist.

Yes, there has. In a number of ways, and different people have different ideas.

> My number one suggestion is that we allow users to subscribe to
> certain diary posts. I'll comment on an entry, and then someone will
> follow up, but I'll have no idea unless I remember to go back and
> check.

If you feel strongly about it, code it up, demonstrate it and submit
it as a patch.

> I don't know anything about Ruby or Rails, but maybe someday I could
> take a stab at it myself, or maybe someone here has the interest and
> skills.

The way things get done in the project is by demonstrating them.
Discussions take weeks/months/years but if you can show demonstratable
code, there's a much higher likelyhood of it being accepted into the
mainstream code base.

The rails port is in git (so it's easy to fork and get started), and
has a dev environment with sample data so you can jump right in.

- Serge