On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Christopher Dwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I see all this excitement about GitHub. It's great that everyone can throw > in their 2¢. It's like stepping on the gas. Now how about that steering > wheel? > > What I don't get is how anyone can keep track of it. Before GitHub, it was > hard enough to track all the extensions and which one went with which > version of code base. Now it seems like an impossible task. Unfortunately I > haven't been able to read the whole 'Summer Reboot Documentation' thread, so > I don't know if anyone has addressed this in there. > > It seems to me that two things are needed to try to get this under control > for new people coming on the scene, or those who can't keep up with the > changes: > > 1) Some kind of news feed > 2) Someone to take the news feed and compile it into the current 'state of > the world' - weekly maybe? > > ... or am I out in left field? > > What I'm thinking of as a news feed would be something like this... > > July 16 - John started on the uber_fu extension > July 16 - Tony released the fork of the uber_mailer extension > July 15 - Jenna released the google_maps extension > July 13 - Tony started a fork of the uber_mailer extension > July 10 - Jenna started the google_maps extension > > How to make that happen? beats me. Tag blog entries with > 'radiantcmsnewsfeed' and somehow find them and aggregate them into a single > RSS feed? > > -Chris GitHub provides this already. You can watch any repo or user you want. When viewing your dashboard, you get a newsroll of what's happened in the repos or users you've been watching. Here's what mine looks like: topfunky <https://github.com/topfunky> started watching fuzed<http://github.com/KirinDave/fuzed/tree> about 10 hours ago fuzed is at KirinDave/fuzed <http://github.com/KirinDave/fuzed/tree> technoweenie <https://github.com/technoweenie> commented on rails/rails<http://github.com/rails/rails/tree> about 14 hours ago Comment in e0846c8<https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e0846c8417093853f4f7f62732983e990c28d669#comments>: Wow, this is breaking one o… saturnflyer <https://github.com/saturnflyer> deleted radiant-help about 17 hours ago Deleted repository was at saturnflyer/radiant-help danielegozzi <https://github.com/danielegozzi> committed to radiant-extensions <http://github.com/danielegozzi/radiant-extensions/tree> about 19 hours ago 96d1e99173e642d11276e7eb6a616be78b258dcc<http://github.com/danielegozzi/radiant-extensions/commit/96d1e99173e642d11276e7eb6a616be78b258dcc> Fixed a malformed html tag in a view. seancribbs <https://github.com/seancribbs> committed to radiant<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/tree> 1 day ago 39460da9ff49dc51a46be618f352bbbb80ab9a65<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/commit/39460da9ff49dc51a46be618f352bbbb80ab9a65> Support Git submodules, use system instead of backtick for rake and gem, fix a broken spec. seancribbs <https://github.com/seancribbs> committed to radiant<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/tree> 1 day ago 5b7c8a1997bdffa841722797b225183e42aaf2cc<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/commit/5b7c8a1997bdffa841722797b225183e42aaf2cc> Add help command to script/extension. seancribbs <https://github.com/seancribbs> committed to radiant<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/tree> 1 day ago 88ccd2be26545179de849009cd4664de5ed9dadc<http://github.com/radiant/radiant/commit/88ccd2be26545179de849009cd4664de5ed9dadc> Finish up specs for implemented installers. If that doesn't do it for you, maybe Yahoo! Pipes could slice and dice your feed. -- Tim
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