{"thread":{"id":"14657","subject":"gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","startedAt":"2008-07-24T14:49:39Z","lastAt":"2008-09-25T15:31:08Z","messageCount":7,"participants":["Petr Baudis","Julian Phillips","Jakub Narebski","Pedro Melo"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"84726","messageId":"20080724144939.GI10151@machine.or.cz","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"3B8DB770-5ADC-4B99-9A12-F1DABA20C34D@bunster.org","subject":"gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Petr Baudis","fromEmail":"pasky@suse.cz","sentAt":"2008-07-24T14:49:39Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-24T14:49:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pasky@ucw.cz","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18439?v=4"},"body":"  Hi,\n\nOn Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n> I've been following the git mailing list to stay on top of new releases, \n> but the traffic got too high.\n>\n> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes and \n> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n>\n> If there's a news file or some-such, I'd be glad to write the code to \n> convert it to a subscription feed.\n\n  I believe you meant to write this to the list directly, I'm cc'ing it\nnow. Basically, this depends on whether Junio finds it worth-while. :-)\nI think these requests do not pop up often, but that might mean that\nmost people are simply discouraged right away and too shy to ask for it.\n\n  One thing that comes on my mind would be to implement RSS feed of new\ntags to gitweb; this could supply the information about new releases\neasily. Any bored gitweb hacker willing to implement this? ;-)\n\n  (Of course, it is a bit of pity that release announcements aren't part\nof the tag comment when Git already makes tag comments possible; that\ncould be a part of the feed. Maybe with the feed as a nice use-case,\nJunio could get convinced to do that though, if it doesn't disrupt his\nrelease workflow too much.)\n\n-- \n\t\t\t\tPetr \"Pasky\" Baudis\nAs in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know\nits true name.  -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie\n"},{"id":"84730","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241600190.7093@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"20080724144939.GI10151@machine.or.cz","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Julian Phillips","fromEmail":"julian@quantumfyre.co.uk","sentAt":"2008-07-24T15:04:03Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-24T15:04:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"julian@quantumfyre.co.uk","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/948888?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:\n\n>  Hi,\n>\n> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>> I've been following the git mailing list to stay on top of new releases,\n>> but the traffic got too high.\n>>\n>> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes and\n>> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n\nAn RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n\n>>\n>> If there's a news file or some-such, I'd be glad to write the code to\n>> convert it to a subscription feed.\n>\n>  I believe you meant to write this to the list directly, I'm cc'ing it\n> now. Basically, this depends on whether Junio finds it worth-while. :-)\n> I think these requests do not pop up often, but that might mean that\n> most people are simply discouraged right away and too shy to ask for it.\n\nThere was a request for RSS feeds some time ago, and I setup the above \nfeeds which automatically process the git mailing list traffic - haven't \nbothered to actually monitor if anyone is using them though ;)\n\n>\n>  One thing that comes on my mind would be to implement RSS feed of new\n> tags to gitweb; this could supply the information about new releases\n> easily. Any bored gitweb hacker willing to implement this? ;-)\n>\n>  (Of course, it is a bit of pity that release announcements aren't part\n> of the tag comment when Git already makes tag comments possible; that\n> could be a part of the feed. Maybe with the feed as a nice use-case,\n> Junio could get convinced to do that though, if it doesn't disrupt his\n> release workflow too much.)\n>\n>\n\n-- \nJulian\n\n  ---\nPeter's hungry, time to eat lunch.\n"},{"id":"84732","messageId":"m3prp3uvn2.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241600190.7093@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-07-24T15:54:23Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-24T15:54:23Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:\n\n> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:\n>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>>>\n>>> I've been following the git mailing list to stay on top of new releases,\n>>> but the traffic got too high.\n>>>\n>>> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes and\n>>> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n> \n> An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n> \n>>> If there's a news file or some-such, I'd be glad to write the code to\n>>> convert it to a subscription feed.\n \n> There was a request for RSS feeds some time ago, and I setup the above\n> feeds which automatically process the git mailing list traffic -\n> haven't bothered to actually monitor if anyone is using them though ;)\n\nIf I didn't thank you for this web service (http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/)\nthanks, if I did thank yoy, thanks again :-)\n\nI have used this service (to be more exact one of feeds offered by\nthis service, which basically is very filtered git mailing list feed)\nas a source of \"News\" section for Git project at Ohloh[1]:\n  http://www.ohloh.net/projects/git\n\n\n[1] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/git/rss_subscriptions uses\n    http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/announce.rss)\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nPoland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"},{"id":"84741","messageId":"B7201433-1725-4C3A-85D6-4C036635FD17@simplicidade.org","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241600190.7093@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Pedro Melo","fromEmail":"melo@simplicidade.org","sentAt":"2008-07-24T16:51:51Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-24T16:51:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"melo@simplicidade.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/13ddbb01e300285a93aa1e3739653a81f9b1d3438bd03a4ac36b88e4ffeeafc3?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Jul 24, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Julian Phillips wrote:\n>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>>>\n>>> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security  \n>>> fixes and\n>>> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n>\n> An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n\nThanks Julian, did not knew these feeds.\n\nYou might want to look at the script that generates the announces  \nfeed. It missed the 1.5.6.4 announcement.\n\nhttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89148/ \nmatch=1.5.6.4\n\nBest regards,\n-- \nPedro Melo\nBlog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/\nXMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org\nUse XMPP!\n"},{"id":"84753","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241818520.7970@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"B7201433-1725-4C3A-85D6-4C036635FD17@simplicidade.org","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Julian Phillips","fromEmail":"julian@quantumfyre.co.uk","sentAt":"2008-07-24T17:25:53Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-24T17:25:53Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"julian@quantumfyre.co.uk","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/948888?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n>\n> On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Julian Phillips wrote:\n>> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>> > > \n>> > > Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes \n>> > > and\n>> > > new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n>> \n>> An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n>\n> Thanks Julian, did not knew these feeds.\n>\n> You might want to look at the script that generates the announces feed. It \n> missed the 1.5.6.4 announcement.\n>\n> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89148/match=1.5.6.4\n\nAh ... oops.  Some stuff got broken during a system upgrade on the 20th, \nand I seem to have missed that mail when trying to fill in the gap (due to \na similar breakage in my personal email system I didn't know it had gone \nout :().  Hopefully that won't happen again.\n\nShould be there now.  Thanks. :)\n\n-- \nJulian\n\n  ---\nThe advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.\n \t\t-- Thomas Jefferson\n"},{"id":"84841","messageId":"AB0DDE8E-D36E-4299-A75F-FF92B402B9C1@simplicidade.org","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241818520.7970@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Pedro Melo","fromEmail":"melo@simplicidade.org","sentAt":"2008-07-25T07:37:54Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-25T07:37:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"melo@simplicidade.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/13ddbb01e300285a93aa1e3739653a81f9b1d3438bd03a4ac36b88e4ffeeafc3?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Jul 24, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Julian Phillips wrote:\n> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:\n>> On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Julian Phillips wrote:\n>>> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>>> > > > > Any way that a git-announce list could be created for  \n>>> security fixes > > and\n>>> > > new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n>>> An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n>>\n>> You might want to look at the script that generates the announces  \n>> feed. It missed the 1.5.6.4 announcement.\n>>\n>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/89148/ \n>> match=1.5.6.4\n>\n> Should be there now.  Thanks. :)\n\nIt's there, fixed.\n\nBest regards,\n-- \nPedro Melo\nBlog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/\nXMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org\nUse XMPP!\n"},{"id":"91608","messageId":"20080925153108.GO10360@machine.or.cz","threadId":"14657","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241600190.7093@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk","subject":"Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?","fromName":"Petr Baudis","fromEmail":"pasky@suse.cz","sentAt":"2008-09-25T15:31:08Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-25T15:31:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"pasky@ucw.cz","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18439?v=4"},"body":"On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:04:03PM +0100, Julian Phillips wrote:\n> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:\n>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:\n>>> I've been following the git mailing list to stay on top of new releases,\n>>> but the traffic got too high.\n>>>\n>>> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes and\n>>> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?\n>\n> An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.\n\nThanks, I have added the RSS feeds to the git.or.cz homepage.\n\n>  ---\n> Peter's hungry, time to eat lunch.\n\nMmm...\n\n-- \n\t\t\t\tPetr \"Pasky\" Baudis\nPeople who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have\ncold baths.\n"}]}