[Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages.

[Mathieu Roy]

Nic <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > RSS is more limited than I thought. Along with the RSS implementation,
> > can we come up with a XML exporting tool that would be working for any
> > savannah artifact, per project?
> > 
> > If you implement the RSS but are not interested in such XML, can you
> > make the function you'll create reusable for this XML extracting
> > purpose?
> 
> Yeah. If you want that I suggest we do one of two things, depending
> on your requirements, I'll leave it to you to choose:
> 
> 1. have a "live" xml snapshot of the data in a project built using
>    PHP. This is just another PHP page but one that generates XML. I'd
>    recommend that we still have a single XML file format but that the
>    PHP page takes some arguments to ensure that the file gets
>    generated with only bugs, or only tasks or only the last "n" days
>    bugs and tasks.
> 
>    These xml snapshots would not follow the RSS syntax.
> 
>    have a seperate RSS system based on a batch job as I have
>    described.
> 
>    Advantages:
>    - you get live snapshot data
> 
>    Disadvantages:
>    - more work
>    - risk of resource drain from people doing whole snapshot.
> 
> 2. have a batch job based snapshot system generating a complete XML
>    in some savannah specific format. Generate the RSS with transforms
>    of that.
> 
>    Advantages:
>    - single system
>    - probably less maintenance
> 
>    Disadvantages:
>    - much slower generation (snapshots will be large)

> 
> I have some guile that can be adapted quite quickly to do batch RSS
> creation on some mysql querys (we just plug the querys into the RSS
> generator). Since it's going to be a batch job it doesn't matter that
> it's guile and not PHP. So that can be done quite quickly and I'm
> going to proceed with that.

That's ok.
The risk of resource drain is too big currently, so the 2 is probably
the best.

> 
> Do you know if we have a webserver that we could use for providing
> the RSS feeds? I really don't think it's a good idea to have it on
> savannah (given the space and load problems).

I heard we are going to have a new box for Savannah... but no news
since then.


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