[Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu patches as RSS feeds

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > And in this case, I just believe that integrating it in the PTS is the
> > right thing and that a RSS feed for Ubuntu patches only would not be much
> > used.
> 
> I already have 85 distinct IPs checking feeds, based on that single blog
> posting; granted, that's only a pointer, and I guess many of those won't be
> using it for much, but it's a signal that there at least is _some_ interest.

Sure.

> The problem seems to be that at some point, one would want some kind of
> filtering. Sure, I could send e-mail to <source>@packages.debian.org, but
> based on previous experience, not all Debian maintainers really _want_ this
> kind of information, and I'd rather not upset anyone; the issues are
> sensitive enough as they are. If not, we'd have to provide some way of
> pushing information into the PTS that won't automatically go out to the
> maintainer, but could still be subscribed to.

This is already planned for the "mail part" of the PTS. There's a new
"derivatives" keyword that user can set to receive automatically news of
their packages in derivatives like Ubuntu. Ubuntu has agreed to send
updates (with debdiff) of their packages to the PTS in that way and I
expect this to be completed in a few weeks (once Dapper is released).

IMO the RSS is a kind of "extra" features where we can afford a bit less
"customizing" whereas the mail part has to be very cautious or people will
stop using the PTS...

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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