People tags

Notes on the upcoming lists implementation. Checkout @shashi's people_tags branch for the code.

Beta testing

http://statusnetdev.net/g0 is where the latest code is running. You can sign up for a new account and start testing now! Please send any bug reports or feedback to connect2shashi@gmail.com or to identi.ca/shashi

Note: if you want to test the federation, we will be setting up sub-domains soon.

Checklist

Here is a (guess of a) list of things to implement.

• Peopletag as list.
  • Decide & implement DB schema
  • basic caching
• Inbox handling in Notice.php
• UI
  • actions/*
    • edittag - description, allow deletion / renaming tag
    • style peopletag list
    • autocomplete for tags -- Branched out
    • ajax tag editing -- TODO field specific search
    • ajax subscription / unsubscription
    • OStatus subscribe / unsubscribe forms
  • cache statistics
• OStatus & Feeds
  • Discovery
  • PuSH feed
  • use Salmon to keep track of tags from remote instances.
  • use salmon to add/remove subscriptions
  • RSS
  • Atom
• API (see twitter api documentation scroll down to lists section)
  • List methods (create, update, index, show, destroy, statuses, memberships, subscriptions)
  • List Members Methods (index, create, destroy, show)
  • List Subscribers Methods (index, create, destroy, show)
  • remove need to authenticate where not required.

You can now test the twitter-compatible api at by using http://statusnetdev.net/g0/api as the api path in your twitter client.

Configuration options

• • enable/disable people tags
  • max tags a user can create (default 100)
  • who can a user tag?
    • local users
    • local users and remote subscriptions
    • any OStatus user
• Plugin to allow tagging groups
  • Some super users who don't care about twitter compatibility might want this. Plus this gives an opportunity to develop and show off a pretty comprehensive set of plugin hooks.

Cache

• local subscribers
• global subscribers
• tags (tag, tagger, tagged) -- how best to pack this?
• statistics

Documentation

• Some places use the word "peopletags" and some use "people tags" some use "profiletags". Fix this.
• Take time to comprehensively write documentation for every function.

Manual Tests

• Installation Passed
• Tagging / Untagging locally Passed
• Tagging / Untagging remotely Passed
• No way to figure out private tags Passed
• CacheLog checks with caching enabled Passed
• Tagging / Untagging locally with memcache Passed
• Tagging / Untagging remotely with memcache Passed
• Tag Autocomplete Passed
• @# replies Passed
• API tests Unknown

Discussion

Things yet to be figured out:

• How can peopletags and lists coexist?
  • lists (on twitter) have a description that go with them, peopletags don't, but peopletags are self-descriptive and cooler. They can also be used to send notices using the @# syntax.

-- let peopletags have descriptions. Send an @# notice to everyone in the peopletag who are subscribed to you as a mention. Basic idea is to keep the ease and awesomeness of peopletagging interface and also the goodness of twitter's list interface.

• Should groups be allowed to be included in lists? (they are themselves lists of people). There are a few issues with this:
  • Twitter API compatibility
  • Showing both users and groups in the same view - maybe, a plugin.
• Do what with FAOF?
• Any more questions?

Feel free to discuss!

OStatus workflow

• New activity verb - ostatus:untag being used

Discovery and Subscription process

• Peopletag represented as a list activity object of person activity objects is the activity:subject of the atom feed.
• Rest of it works exactly like follow/unfollow for groups.

Tags by remote servers

• a tag/untag activity object comes with a "target" which is the peopletag and an "object" which is the remote person being tagged. "actor" is the tagger - garbageCollect user's feed.

UI Notes

The sidebar is getting too cluttered, need feedbacks and suggestions.

• A peopletag list item widget has a (un)subscribe button, statistics: no. of members & subscribers
• Profile list item widget will have editable tags with autocomplete.
• Sidebar widgets peopletag mini list:
  • has a mini avatar, username & tag, statistics on mouseover!
  • each item has a height of 50px which is huge and needed to accommodate the avatar

• List of sidebar widgets:
  • Public page:
    • List of tags with largest subscribers
  • Profile page:
    • Tag cloud by most subscribed
    • Latest subscriptions
  • Peopletagsbyuser page
    • tag cloud by most subscribed
  • Peopletagsforuser page
    • tag cloud by frequency