Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers