Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Jul 24, 2008, 15:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241600190.7093@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20080724144939.GI10151@machine.or.cz>

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

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>  Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:
>> I've been following the git mailing list to stay on top of new releases,
>> but the traffic got too high.
>>
>> Any way that a git-announce list could be created for security fixes and
>> new releases? Or maybe an RSS feed on the website?

An RSS feed already exists, have a look at http://gitrss.q42.co.uk/.

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>>
>> If there's a news file or some-such, I'd be glad to write the code to
>> convert it to a subscription feed.
>
>  I believe you meant to write this to the list directly, I'm cc'ing it
> now. Basically, this depends on whether Junio finds it worth-while. :-)
> I think these requests do not pop up often, but that might mean that
> most people are simply discouraged right away and too shy to ask for it.

There was a request for RSS feeds some time ago, and I setup the above feeds which automatically process the git mailing list traffic - haven't bothered to actually monitor if anyone is using them though ;)

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>  One thing that comes on my mind would be to implement RSS feed of new
> tags to gitweb; this could supply the information about new releases
> easily. Any bored gitweb hacker willing to implement this? ;-)
>
>  (Of course, it is a bit of pity that release announcements aren't part
> of the tag comment when Git already makes tag comments possible; that
> could be a part of the feed. Maybe with the feed as a nice use-case,
> Junio could get convinced to do that though, if it doesn't disrupt his
> release workflow too much.)
>
>

-- 
Julian

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