Re: Daily News Aggregation

[Stephen H. Dawson, DSL]

   Hi Bob,
   Thanks for the reply.
   Yes, the URL is what I remember. What I also remember is an email that
   came daily to tell of the entries posted there.
   I am not clear on the communication reasoning in play. Posting all of
   the good news about GNU to respective news feeds is great. Aggregating
   them to this URL is even better. However, the option to have a
   collection sent by email makes sense to me.
   [1]https://planet.gnu.org/rss20.xml
   I just checked the RSS feed. It does not receive the entries from the
   9th posted to [2]https://planet.gnu.org/. Something is off on the RSS
   side of the feed. Also, the absence of the email option means GNU is
   not communicating to the public as intended.

   Stephen Dawson, DSL
   Executive Strategy Consultant
   Business & Technology
   +1 (865) 804-3454
   [3]http://www.shdawson.com

   On 10/10/21 5:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

Hello Stephen,

Stephen H. Dawson wrote:

   We used to have an email daily for the news feeds of all GNU projects.
   I remember a server migration occurred, and the email was put on the
   back burner to get it done.
   What is the status of activating the daily email of news feeds for GNU
   projects, please?

[4]https://planet.gnu.org/ carries the news feed for all Savannah
projects.  In addition to other postings.  Is that to which you are
referring?  That was dropped for a while after a previous migration in
July 2016 but was then brought back (Thanks Sylvain!) in March 2018.
It provides RSS and other feeds from that location.

I am unaware of any previous news feed directly from Savannah itself.
There are individual projects which have their own news feed.  But
I don't know a lot about a lot of things so if you have an example
please point me to it. :-)

I'll use this message to ask users about something else I have been
thinking about and it is on this topic.

In the time I have been working with Savannah the front page news feed
has only ever been about Savannah itself.  Which means when nothing is
happening the front page is rather boring.  And when things are
happening it is almost always bad news!  But it is a feature of the
software forge to approve project news to the front page.  And I think
that might also send the news to this mailing list since I think all
news posted to the front page is also sent here too.

Is this something that Savannah users would like to see?  To send
appropriate and curated news from individual projects to the front
page and also to this mailing list?

Bob

References

   1. https://planet.gnu.org/rss20.xml
   2. https://planet.gnu.org/
   3. http://www.shdawson.com/
   4. https://planet.gnu.org/