[bbDev] Possible Ideas

[Michael D Adams]

On Jul 5, 2005, at 3:29 PM, dean at deansas.org wrote:
> Any plans for tags to have their own RSS feed?

How apropos :) http://bbpress.automattic.com/changeset/172
Speaking of feeds, can people make sure 304 Not Modified headers are  
being sent out correctly?

> Putting RSS link inside the head tags as well - allows firefox and  
> also I think opera and Safari(??) to pick it up and add as a "live  
> bookmark" easier.

Good call.  Could you submit a ticket?  http://bbpress.automattic.com/ 
newticket

> Just wondering if there's any plans (obviously in the far future of  
> the project), to introduce an xml-rpc API or something similar?

How would you use such a feature?  I'm not asking pointedly, but only  
to figure out the sorts of scenarios in which xml-rpc would get used.

> Human Friendly URLs
> It looks like my host (and I suspect other shared hosting), doesn't  
> have the setting enabled, can I include the setting(content  
> negotiation/multiviews) in a .htaccess file? Alternatively will  
> mod_rewrite ever be supported?

MultiViews can be set in .htaccess files unless your host is  
specifically preventing you from doing so.  I'm very ignorant on  
hosting practices; I have no idea if hosts typically do or don't  
prevent the use of the MultiViews option.  To try it out, put the  
following in your .htaccess.

Options +MultiViews

mod_rewrite will be supported if it turns out it's the best way to  
make pretty links work.  bbPress will need unleashing on more hosts,  
though, before we know what all the pitfalls are of the current  
implementation (a general statement).  Actually, the URLs aren't  
terribly involved; someone with a little rewrite-fu could write up a  
static set of rules.

Michael
--mdawaffe