[Framework-Team] PLIP184 - additional portlets

[Wichert Akkerman]

Jon Stahl wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Geir Bækholt · Jarn wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 23, 2007, at 01:31 , Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>>
>>>> The PLIP also mentions a better RSS portlet. I won't be able to do 
>>>> that, but rumour is that Wichert has done it in the "feedmixer" 
>>>> portlet already. Is that correct? If not, do we have any other 
>>>> volunteers?
>>>
>>>
>>> Feedmixer is a better RSS portlet, and should cover most usecases. It 
>>> aggregates multiple feeds to one (and includes a "more…" listing.) , 
>>> but you can easily cover the simple usecase of a single feed as well. 
>> This is what I send to Martin earlier:
>>
>>     Feedmixer is not a 'better' portlet (even if its implementation
>>     actually is better). Feedmixer serves a different purpose: a
>>     portlet and page that shows data aggregated from multiple feeds.
>>     That is quite different than what the standard RSS portlet does:
>>     that makes it extremely easy to add a portlet for a single feed.
>>     The use cases differ enough to warrant
>>     separate portlets.
>>
>>     The main problem people have with the current RSS portlet is that
>>     it does not work for anonymous users, or it only works as long as
>>     there are authenticated users active as well. I fixed that in svn
>>     a while ago but that hasn't made it into a release yet.
>>
>> based on that we'll keep feedmixer as a separate product.
>>
>> Wichert.
> Obviously, I defer to pretty much everyone on the pure technical issues, 
> but, having used both the included RSS portlet and feedmixer, I think 
> that Feedmixer is indeed a vastly "better" RSS portlet (in addition to 
> its other features).
> As Geir points out, Feedmixer supports every use case that the basic RSS 
> portlet does, and several more besides.   I think it is in fact 
> confusing to have two different RSS portlet products like this; why not 
> just ship the more powerful one and focus all of our effort on 
> maintaining that one, rather than spread effort across two products?

The 'original' RSS portlet has two important qualities:

* it is easier to configure: it picks up the portlet title from the feed
   title automatically.
* it integrates the RSS feed source more tightly by going there directly
   for the full list of feed items instead of creating a separate page in
   plone

Both are useful qualities imho.

Wichert.

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