RSS feeds of CVS revision logs

Started by Joshua D. Drakeabout 20 years ago2 messages
#1Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com

Hello,

Some of you may have noted the new project I am playing with the
PostgreSQL Source browser.
It is a Subversion->Trac interface to the PostgreSQL CVS repository. The
entire repository
is represented. It is currently updated daily but I am hoping to get
this down to hourly in
the near future.

The site can be viewed here:

http://www-new.commandprompt.com/projects/public/pgsql

The URL will change in the future, probably to pgcode.org or maybe just
projects.commandprompt.com.

I was speaking with JoshB and he mentioned that one particular facet of
this may be interesting
to you folks, which is the RSS feeds. JoshB was thinking this would be
useful for replacing
pgsql-patches@ for some people as their mailboxes get filled up. You
have the ability using any RSS
reader to subscribe to any portion of the revision log.

For example, for the docs project, they can subscribe to Trunk->docs and
thus only see the revision
logs within their feed for the docs project. At your leisure you may
either choose to see only
a brief synopsis for the complete commit message.

Here is an example of the short feed:

http://www-new.commandprompt.com/projects/public/pgsql/log/trunk?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&stop_rev=&format=rss

Here is an example of the long feed:

http://www-new.commandprompt.com/projects/public/pgsql/log/trunk?verbose=on&format=rss&stop_rev=&limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy

Notice the only real difference is the verbose=on

The power of this at least from my perspective, is that I use
Thunderbird as my RSS reader. I can view a current
revision, click forward, and send a question to the list about a
specific change.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
Command Prompt, Inc.

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#2Nathan Buchanan
nbinont@gmail.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#1)
Re: RSS feeds of CVS revision logs

Hi Joshua,

I think the RSS feed is a great Idea! (I personally use InfoRss with
Mozilla) Though it would be nice to reduce the amount of text before the
description (I barely get by the revision number to see the description)
maybe formatted "CMP:R######: Description..." Though I have no idea how much
work that would be.

Oh, and by the way, thanks to all for one really nice database!

Nathan