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[ajlewis2]

These look promising:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=552465
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 0&t=544331

Anita

[rharrison]

I'd like to second this request. The RSS feeds on the OLPC News Forums have really helped me stay up to date with the postings there. I'd love to be able to keep track of things here the same way.

[mburns]

RSS is planned to be added in the next day or so. I want that as much as you do.

I did a quick attempt last night, but installing extensions onto a live forum is not a good idea. Peter and I are going to setup a test forum, get the feeds working, and then swap it in when its ready. As we should do for all future extension (or in phpbb lingo, "MODs") installation.

Other modules for phpbb3 that you all would like to see installed (assuming they are functional, etc) can be voted on, per the forum rules. Sound good?

viewtopic.php?f=1246&t=150388

Cheers!

[rwhe]

RSS is planned to be added in the next day or so. I want that as much as you do.

I am really looking forward to having RSS back. Thanks for making this a priority.

Ron Hale-Evans

[ajlewis2]

RSS is planned to be added in the next day or so. I want that as much as you do.

Good to hear! Would you announce it on the mailing list when it is in place, because my reading of this board is not too frequent. Thanks.

Anita

[mburns]

first attempt didnt work ( yay for test servers) but fixing it shouldn't be too hard. Once it works we'll do a brief downtime and sync files over. Couple more evenings of tweaking away. I'll do a big announce when we deploy it. Thanks for being patient!

[rwhe]

[edit to remove stupid question]

Thanks for continuing to work on this.

Ron Hale-Evans

[mburns]

For those following along, let me push back the RSS deployment a bit further, but its worth it.

My goal is to launch a mildly updated (with RSS feeds) website this weekend. This will, if all goes well, correspond with a third-party OLPC forum merge. Launching these two pending changes will just mean less downtime and juggling with the site, which is why I would like to do it.

Don't worry, this merge one will be painless. We're not changing forum software, we're not doing anything tricky, we're only importing with a supported path (phpbb into phpbb), and we have a live test forum that will get the complete approval of the 3 involved admins before it gets pushed onto the 'live' forum during scheduled maintenance.

Sorry to bring bad news, but at the same time, this weekends upgrade should be more than worth it.

[mburns]

Its ready to go. Will announce the maintenance time tomorrow to install it. woot.

[mburns]

So here is the funny thing. The first RSS mod didn't work(confusing, cumbersome and error-prone configuration) , the second RSS mod, the one that is currently installed here, only offers a single site-wide feed: lame! The third RSS mod is installed on the dev site, but there are open bugs that are causing problems. I've reported them and the dev will be pushing towards a new release soon.