We had a meeting of Drupalers at the Federated Social Web Summit 2011, with voxpelli, dahacouk, quiron and myself. I posted the following comment to the Federated Social Web Drupal task force but maybe it will find more eyes here.
Here are the notes from our discussion about OStatus implementation for Drupal. Any comments would be most welcome.
Overview:
- Need to allow content to be consumed.
- Work from James Walker's disco module. Needs testing and review.
- Activity module most likely for us to use.
- Either fork it or add support for producing activity streams.
- Include webfinger support. Needs review.
- Then review and streamline PuSH (PubSubHubbub) using the Feeds module
- Then add support for Salmon. But that's not really useful until we have REST
- Develop first for Drupal 6. Once that's working we can look at D7. Alternative would require extra work for testing and compliance.
- First focus on Atom and then JSON. Perhaps the spec will have changed format by then.
- Create a sandbox module. Then once that's working, contact Activity maintainers and ask if we should create a submodule or merge with Activity.
- Document and develop iteratively so that we'll have good opportunities for testing, community review, and clarification of the process.
- create tests based on SWAT0, SWAT1 use cases
Issues:
- how to model remote users (see http://ostatus.org/2010/10/04/how-ostatus-enable-your-application)
- URIs might work for groups, not for users. That why webfinger exists.
Goal:
- Need a quick working solution.
- Try to reuse Views Atom for feed consumption, parsing, and production since that can be thorny.
Possible modules for Integration: