[Savannah-dev] [bugs #3614] RSS output of news items

[Mathieu Roy]

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Project: Savane at Savannah
Submitted by: Mathieu Roy
On: mer 14.05.2003 à 19:11

Category:  News Mgr
Severity:  1 - Enhancement
Priority:  1 - Later
Resolution:  None
Assigned to:  nferrier
Status:  Closed
Fixed Release:  
Affected release:  


Summary:  RSS output of news items

Original Submission:  We should provide something like RSS output of news for 
each project. 

It can be easily added.

So people can print news item from Savannah projects on their webpages.

In fact, I even think that we should provide RSS-like item for each tools, so 
people can extract and reuse their data. So when implementing this, it should 
be done with that  in mind.

This is a RSS sample:
http://linuxfr.org/~penso/journal.rss

It looks like that (XML)

<item>
        <title>Journaux</title>
        <link>http://linuxfr.org/~penso/2158.html</link>
        <description>Pour éviter des soucis, les journaux ne sont désormais 
possibles que pour ceux qui ont au moins 2 XPs. Ca évitera les 
défouloirs.</description>
</item>

But it may generate big traffic. So it should be tested only for news at first. 
For instance, the ml-donkey massive requests was getting news in this way (but 
with text files, not formatted XML). Maybe from the start it should allows only 
one request per hour for an IP. 



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Date: ven 16.07.2004 à 13:23        By: yeupou
Savannah development, now renamed Savane, continues at
https://gna.org/p/savane 

Bug reports should be submitted to the bug tracker where he
stands now at https://gna.org/bugs/?group=savane 
Check there if the bug you noticed/feature you'd like to use is
not already registered.


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Date: lun 28.06.2004 à 09:46        By: nferrier
Just a note to say I'm holding off doing this... I'm unclear as to the status 
of the savane database code. When I can establish how long we're going to have 
this code, then I will add this feature.


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Date: mar 26.08.2003 à 15:18        By: nferrier
Here's my plan for doing this:

- generate 1 RSS feed for each project, include news and file releases 
(initially)

- generate feeds as a batch job, have the files live on somewhere other than 
savannah (stops excessive downloading affecting sv)

- have webserver serve rss file as normal (ie: with conditional GET support)

Advantages:
- we get RSS
- we don't get swallowed up in a sea of aggregation requests

Disadvantages
- RSS files are outside of the savannah namespace (maybe savannah-news.gnu.org?)













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