RSS (was: Re: [FIX] KlattLayoutFix-nk ( [cd][er][et][sm] ))

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Fri Jun 6 07:55:47 UTC 2003


Hi Daniel,

I see RSS more as a way to provide very specialised (mostly automatically
generated) information to the developers without polluting existing
Lists or setting up thousands of new ones. This could be used for
 -> CVS commit mails from sourceforge
 -> automatic announces of new packages (or updates) on SqueakMap
 -> Updates that get published in the updatestream
 -> Statistiks from the testserver
 -> ...

parts of these would be both available via RSS and on the mailinglist,
so this would be more an addition then a replacement.

With a good RSS aggregator, we could add some other things for easy
and fast acces, e.g. the recent changes from the Wiki, all the mailinglists
(so you could read the via RCC instead of mail), SqueakMap could
provide wiki, blog, testserver and CVS-like functionality for each package,
each available via RSS for easy access inside Squeak.

But all this is more something for the future... 

          Marcus

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:45:31PM +0200, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> Interesting. I assume you intend it as a format for the sqfixes site. 
> 
> How would ENHs, FIXes and so forth get from the user to the archives?
> 
> How would squeak-dev dwellers stay reasonably informed?
> 
> Yeah, I know, we can think up some crazy scheme that'll work, but if
> someone knows what common practice, it probably wouldn't hurt us to at
> least consider it :-)
> 
> BTW, either way we go about it, and even if we decide to adopt this tech 
> eventually, this definitely shouldn't distract us from moving forward with 
> the tools we have now. Traffic problems can be solved more easily than 
> that.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Marcus Denker <marcus at ira.uka.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:48:20AM -0400, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> > > Sean --
> > > 
> > > These posts are getting automatically processed by the Bug Fixes Archive.
> > > See http://swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes ... or install the BugFixArchiveViewer from SqueakMap.  
> > >
> > Maybe we should add this information to all those messages, the best
> > would be a short explanation and a link to the original message on
> > the SQFIXES archive.
> >  
> > > The Harvesters group may eventually move the harvesting process 
> > > off this list, if the volume gets too high.  For right now, though, 
> > > posting emails to squeak-dev is the only way for harvesting-peeps to 
> > > review proposed fixes and enhancements.
> > > 
> > 
> > We should really look into RSS, that what the blog-community is working 
> > with: (Really Simple Syndication: http://backend.userland.com/rss)
> > 
> > Someone has even started to build a RSS aggregator in Squeak: 
> > http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3206
> > 
> > and there is BottomFeeder, done in VisualWorks by James Robertson: 
> > http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/
> > 
> >      Marcus 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeak.de
> 

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