Re: about the new DPN template, RSS, and spigot
On 10/20/2015 09:13 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> Dear all
> I sent the message below to the corresponding bugs, but to the wrong adress for the list :/
> Resending now...
>
> -------- Mensaje Original --------
> De: Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@larjona.net>
> Enviado: 20 de octubre de 2015 00:42:13 GMT+02:00
> Para: SmartList <debian-publicity-request@lists.debian.org>, 583781@bugs.debian.org, 781351@bugs.debian.org
> Asunto: about the new DPN template, RSS, and spigot
>
> Another thing to take into account is that we currently don't publish a
> note (nor several) in the social networks about DPN, because spigot
> fails to process the current RSS (due to lack of date field in each RSS
> item; see bug #781351 ), and we don't manually microblog about the DPN
> either (we could do it until the bug is solved, but I understand it's a
> lot of work).
>
> This reinforces, IMHO, the opportunity to put a bit of work from
> somebody with RSS/Perl skills, and get these two bugs solved, and enter
> a new phase of DPN better spread both by RSS and by social networks.
>
> OTOH, from the social networks point of view, maybe it's good to
> reformat the template and keep on producing one RSS item for each news,
> include the date so spigot nor other RSS-processors don't complain, and
> then, the day that we release a DPN issue, get the titles and or headers
> published for each news, in a timely basis (let's say, one post each 7
> minutes or so).
>
> Opinions? Anybody that could help on this? I can try to submit patches
> (I did for #781351) but I would need a decision of one RSS entry or
> several, plus somebody reviewing my patches (I have no Perl nor RSS
> skills, just figuring out what I read in the existent files/scripts).
>
> Regards
>
My opinion, as one person who follows the RSS feed, is that I would
personally rather receive a DPN issue as one entry, because on the scale
of medium-to-large-sized-things that my RSS feeds contain, the entire
DPN issue fits in perfectly as one thing, and I read it all together,
all the entries in one (small) sitting. So for an RSS feed -- to keep
track of "have I read it" -- I think one entry works better.
That said, if we do put it on a social network it seems to me (note: I
don't social network much at all) that having it divided up, like it is
now, into individual bite-sized single-topic chunks is exactly the right
way to do it, because that allows sharing and commenting on a single topic.
Those are just my very inexperienced opinions, however, so if someone
disagrees with them for any reason, they are more likely correct than me.
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