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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: suggest name for OPML view

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2009, 19:45 UTC
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<200901102045.57589.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>
>>> Suggest opml.xml as name for OPML view by providing the appropriate
>>> header, consistently with similar usage in project_index view.
>>
>> It is not name for a view, but more of default filename when saving
>> it. While it is good idea to have consistency, I guess that while
>> 'project_index' view and other non-HTML views are meant to be
>> downloaded and saved (snapshots, patches, patchsets), OPML view
>> is meant to be used on-line, just like web feeds in RSS and Atom
>> formats which are non-HTML too but do not have Content-Disposition
>> header set.
> 
> OPML is used for import/export of RSS feed lists between aggregators
> (e.g. moving your reading list from knewsreader to google reader). As
> such, it can also be comfortable to save it to disk for import by some
> tools. IMO, of course. [...]

If it is used in such way, then I am all for it (and of course for consistency with 'projects_index' view).

Acked-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Jakub Narebski
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  1. gitweb: suggest name for OPML viewGiuseppe Bilotta, Jan 2, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009
  4. Giuseppe BilottaJan 10, 2009
  5. Jakub NarebskiJan 10, 2009

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