From Amarok Wiki
Description
Aim is to provide a new planet system for planet.kde.org, written in Ruby as dynamic and as error tolerant as possible
What it would take
- Ruby RSS/RDF/ATOM parser (http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools) | (http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/)
- Caching system (http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools)
- Database? (maybe use rails? - does feedtools use a db for caching?)
- Storing previous posts enables to check whether a post already has been published back in time
- might reduce speed - maybe optional?
- which database?
- mysql: flexible for small databases
- psql: can grow with the project - the bigger the better
- Planet it self
- Planet based comment system
- Error and mistake processing routines
- Nifty support for podcast feeds
License
Not yet decided