[Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages.

[Mathieu Roy]

Nic <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > En réponse à Nic <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > > I have some code to generate RSS pages from SQL querys.
> > > 
> > > Are we interested in making RSS of our projects available? Maybe NEWS
> > > + File releases as a single RSS?
> > > 
> > > I could easily hack that together.
> > 
> > Hi Nic,
> > 
> > See http://sv.gnu.org/bugs?group=savannah
> > there's an item about that.
> > 
> > If you want it, you can do it. 
> 
> Ok... I'll pick it up.
> 
> > It should be done for any kind of data. Bugs,
> > tasks -etc...- RSS are also interesting.
> > In fact, maybe a RSS per project is more appropriate: a RSS per project per
> > artifact -bug, etc- should be the best.
> 
> I don't agree with doing it per project per item. I'd prefer a single
> project RSS with each item clearly categorised. That way one wouldn't
> need to aggregate the feeds for a single project to see all the news.

The problem is easy: is one RSS per project scalable?

> 
> 
> That's the basis on which I'll go ahead... but I'm happy to argue
> about it.

We spend to much time to rewrite stuff that was wrote in 3 different
ways in Sourceforge: as it's clear that some people, including me,
will want RSS for any kind of artifact (bugs, tasks, news etc) 
we can have for a project, it must be working/implemented for any kind
of artifact easily. 

That's the main point.


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