We didn't (intentionally anyway) change anything with the RSS feeds. We'll look into it. Dan
----- Original Message ----- > From: "lcollado" <lcoll...@jhu.edu> > To: "Antti Honkela" <antti.honk...@hiit.fi> > Cc: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org>, "bioc-devel" > <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:19:26 AM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] NotNeeded in build report RSS feeds > Hi, > > I don't think this has anything to do with "NotNeeded". The RSS feed > did indeed change around the time BioC 3.3 was released and I have > also been getting daily RSS updates, even if they are "No build > problems for package XYZ" (with the same status the day before). > > My guess is that the RSS feed was changed to add daily updates before > 3.3's release just to make sure all issues were solved before the > release. And now that things are a bit more static it'd be nice to > have the RSS feed to return to "on change". > > Best, > Leo > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Antti Honkela <antti.honk...@hiit.fi> wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> I follow the RSS feed on Feedly and for some time now it has shown two >> updates every day: "NotNeeded in Release" and "NotNeeded in Devel". Up to >> approximately 2 months ago I only saw updates when the status changed, but >> since then there have been these two daily non-updates which add a lot of >> noise. >> >> It seems that the whole NotNeeded thing was introduced in RSS reports >> sometime last autumn and as far as I can tell it has generated a lot of >> noise e.g. when the build machine names changes etc. but no useful >> information. >> >> As the NotNeeded state does not seem something a package maintainer needs to >> care about, perhaps you could ignore it when generating the RSS and revert >> to the "No build problems for X" report? >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Antti >> >> >> >> On 28 Jun 2016, at 22:16, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: >> >>> Hi Antti, >>> >>> I'm not sure I follow. NotNeeded is a status seen in the INSTALL phase of >>> the build, and it means your package did not need to be installed because no >>> other package built by the build system depends on it. >>> >>> This status should not change from one day to the next. (It would change >>> if someone were to depend on your package.) >>> >>> But the basic behavior of the RSS feeds is supposed to be to only notify >>> you when there is a change in build status. So you should not get new feeds >>> when the build status stays the same. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> >>>> From: "Antti Honkela" <antti.honk...@hiit.fi> >>>> To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 4:45:12 AM >>>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] NotNeeded in build report RSS feeds >>> >>> >>>> Would it be possible to change the build report RSS feed generation to >>>> treat "NotNeeded" similarly as "OK"? >>>> >>>> This would make the feed more useful for spotting real problems. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Antti >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel