Disorderly Enormous Resources

[ychen]

Matthew Thomas wrote:
> On 17 Sep, 2005, at 5:08 AM, ychen wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Ubuntu is great, but the resources looks like chaos, forums/mailing 
>> lists/wiki/IRC/newsgroups. Can we have something which can consolidate 
>> all of these resources?
>> ...
>> and we can see everything in one place (eg. we can see messages which 
>> are from forums in newgroup).
>> ...
> 
> 
> That's an interesting idea. Perhaps you could write up some details of 
> how this would work.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumsCommunityIntegration>
> 
> One component could be to set up Web feeds (Atom/RSS) for the forums, 
> and for RecentChanges in the wiki, so you can read them alongside the 
> mailing lists and newsgroups in a program like Thunderbird.
> 
> Another component could be a search function that searches the official 
> site, the wiki, the forums, and the mailing list archives all at once.
> 
>> So that we can use a unique ID such as email address to get into all,
> 
> 
> There's nothing stopping you from using the same e-mail address for the 
> mailing list, the wiki, and the newsgroups.
> 
>> Otherwise, we have to remember too many ID and passwords.
>> ...
> 
> 
> There's nothing stopping you from using the same password, too (though 
> it's not necessarily a good idea).
> 
> Great subject line, by the way. :-)
> 

Disorderly | Dis*or"der*ly |

     1. Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged;
       immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly
       state.
       1913 Webster

Not a bad word, eh? or language problem? ;)

What I mean is: can we consolidate all of this information in one 
database? The wiki uses MySQL? I don't know what the forum is based on. 
Newsgroup's data can be transfer to a database? and mailing list? If we 
can build all of these resources on one database, we can share the 
information from different resources when we get in any of input 
systems. --That's only an idea. May be we need it.