[p2pu-dev] [p2pu-community] P2PU API user story

[Dirk Uys]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dirk, that is exactly the chicken and egg problem we had in the first
> attempt of an API; no one can come up with clear examples. There was
> some discussion, some neat ideas such as widgets to embed certain info
> in your own site, but nothing was really fleshed out. And nothing
> really came up that cannot be done by scraping info from the site
> (there's people already doing that!).
>

Cool, do you know what they are scraping and what they are using the data
for? It would be interesting to hear!

I do believe an API is important but I also have a feeling that it is
> more important to us (APIs are just plain fun!) than it is for the
> site right now.
>

We can improve on many things non API related in the site. We should keep
their priority high and try to avoid a situation where we promise bluer
skies and greener grass once we have built an API :)

My bigger use case was a mobile app but I believe that making the site
> responsive in mobile devices would be a better way of using resources.
>

Agreed, we don't want to maintain separate Android and IOS apps.


> I hope this does not sound harsh but to get people to use your API you
> have to give them a quality service underneath that API. I don't think
> Lernanta is at that stage yet. Having solid core services such as
> authentication, mail integration, threading, integration with third
> party services (OBI type of services), content embedding, a pluggable
> and extensible architecture, and so on, would make people want to
> build on top of Lernanta.
>

We should identify the core services and focus on them so that we can
deliver the quality you are talking about. I think part of this is that we
need to know what to aim at.


> Sorry it's not the answer that you wanted to hear but it's how I feel
> about the topic right now :)
>

No problem, it's good to hear how other people feel!


Cheers
d
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