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[Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages.
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages. |
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29 Aug 2003 14:10:43 +0200 |
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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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- [Savannah-hackers] RSS for savannah pages., Nic, 2003/08/24
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] RSS for savannah pages., Rudy Gevaert, 2003/08/24
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] RSS for savannah pages., Mathieu Roy, 2003/08/25
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] RSS for savannah pages., Nic, 2003/08/25
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Mathieu Roy, 2003/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Nic, 2003/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Mathieu Roy, 2003/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Nic, 2003/08/28
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Mathieu Roy, 2003/08/29
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages., Nic, 2003/08/29
- [Savannah-hackers] Re: RSS for savannah pages.,
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