Re: gitweb tags feed, Re: New version announcements?

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:

 Hi,

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:38:24AM -0400, Jordi Bunster wrote:

quoted

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/.

quoted

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

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