Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
On 20 Apr 2011, at 07:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Vanessa,
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:57:38PM -0300, vanecgs@gmail.com wrote:
>> I was taking a look at some python libraries for twitter, they are pretty
>> easy to use so making a script for automatically posting won't be a hard
>> task. Now, what do we want to post? package updates/uploads? what else?
>>
>> For packages, is there a text file or something about the upgrades/updates
>> so I can parse the data and tweet it?
>
> That's a bit difficult and perhaps some more research is needed. There
> are those messages send by "Debian FTP Masters" to our developers
> mailinglist (= the "maintainer") where you can see examples in the archive
> for instande here[1]. Unfortunately there is not much information about
> the package itself - at least the short description would be needed IMHO.
> So what we could twitter might be:
>
> <package> - <short description obtained from UDD> uploaded [closing #bugnumber]
>
> This could be triggered if a mail is recieved from FTP Master (so your
> daemon could simply subscribe the list). I admit that I do not really
> like this suggestion because it includes several weak parts. It might
> make sense to discuss this on debian-devel/-mentors where other clever
> people are listening and probably might come up with a better idea.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
In addition to automated updates, it would be nice to have debian-med related commentary on the twitter feed; the launch of the blog, for example. I'm happy to post from time to time if you're happy for me to have the account details.
Will
>
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2011-April/thread.html
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