From: Julian Phillips Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:04:03 GMT Subject: Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080724144939.GI10151@machine.or.cz> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > 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/. >> >> 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 ;) > > 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 --- Peter's hungry, time to eat lunch.