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Thunderbird Tagging Subversion Repository
April 27th, 2006I’ve established a Subversion respository at http://blogometer.com/svn/tbt for the Thunderbird Tagging project lead by Paul Alexandrow and Frederic Wenzel. The Thunderbird Tagging project has been discussed here in the Blogometer and at Frederic’s blog. I use Subversion on Windows, OS X and Linux, and can field and client questions. If Paul has a latest version of Tag the Bird, I can check that in for him, and post some notes on checkout.
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A message from Paul Alexandrow.
The structure that he proposes is a flat heirarchy with src, docs and bin.
A little off-topic: what do you think about a combined RSS feed that contains all postings about this topic, no matter in whose blog they are? Could you provide a RSS feed of all such postings in your blog? If so, I’ll volunteer to set up the combined feed.
Created repository as per your description. You can follow the link http://blogometer.com/svn/tbt and look around. You can get a feed of all Thunderbird Tagging articles in this blog with http://blogometer.com/tag/thunderbird-tagging/feed/.
When you create the combinded feed, how difficult would it be to add the comments feeds from our Thunderbird Tagging and Tag the Bird blog entries as they are created? I feel that we will do a fair bit of discussion in the comments.
Looking forward to stepping through the XPI build.
I now created a combined feed of yours and mine (Frederic needs to send me some URL yet) using the Feedshake service. For our convenience, I made the feed available through a URL on my domain: http://alexandrow.org/tagthebird.xml.
Note that Feedshake is just a quick solution I want to suggest because of it’s simplicity. If we decided, that we would need something more powerful, I could even program such a tool. However, I prefer to focus on TTB itself ;).
About the comments: I fear without a selfwritten tool there’s no way to include them in the feed, unless they are not in the individual feeds themselves. Could you include them in your feed? Another way would be, not to include the Comments into the feed, but update the Post’s pubDate with every new comment. I’d even prefer that latter method, but of course I’m open to other arguments.
Addition: unfortunately I just found out, that neither method is supported by my bloghoster…
Paul - If you view the RSS for this entry, there is a feed of comments for just this entry. Can you add it directly? The URL is…
http://blogometer.com/2006/04/27/thunderbird-tagging-subversion-repository/feed/
Played around with FeedShake. It has a bug today.
The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that we have to program our own feedmerger. It should not be too difficult though - just have to find some time. For now, let’s use and promote the URL I provided in my earlier comment, because it won’t change, even with another feedmerger.
I uploaded a build script for windows today. I don’t know, what OS you guys are using, but if wanted I could upload a generic explanation too.
Further I uploaded a first draft of a development environment howto. Let me know what you think or if you need any help.
Paul
How about creating that howto on how to build and install the plugin? If the steps are simple, could I create a shell script, Makefile or Ruby script that could do the build for us?
I now committed a brief explanation for building. Basically I’m just linking to the #1 ressource for that topic on mozillazine.org. It should be easy to make a script in any language you like with the information that can be found there. Let me know, if you need help.
I’ve followed the instructions that you created. The instructions to build the Tag the Bird development environment can be obtained from the Subversion repository through the web.
The extension manager says that Tag the Bird is installed, and a configuration dialog will appear from the extensions interface. I don’t seem to be able to find any tagging menu items or context menus from the folder or message view of Thunderbird. How does Tag the Bird work?