Re: parsing debian-devel-changes archives
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:29:49AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> > I've produced a script[0] to parse d-d-changes archives to a sane format so to
> > produce an history of uploads made to debian[1] in this form:
>
> Very cool!
Thanks :)
>
> > comments/ideas welcome as usual,
>
[...]
> As the data encoded by d-d-changes is basically timed change
> notifications, I would say that the more appropriate format to represent
> it is a feed format, such as RSS or Atom, what do you think? Having such
> a format would enable cool stuff to be created quite easily (e.g. even
> using, say, Pipes), such as per-maintainer feed changes. Personally it
> is something I would like to have linked from the DDPO.
>
> It shouldn't be to hard to convert (or maybe pair) your format to RSS,
> with an appropriate XML encoding of its content, shout if you want to
> discuss a potential DTD. Maybe a bit harder can be to provide more
> lively updates, as if one then wants to use RSS as such, weekly updates
> are too coarse grained ...
Of course the idea of having more updated data is appealing, I'd myself welcome
RSS/atom feeds per-package (almost the same as PTS' upload news) or
per-maintainer (either changed-by or upload key or whatever). How to proceed for
the XML encoding? And what might be the most interesting?
The weekly update period is rather arbitrary, can be switched to daily
effortlessly.
filippo
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