On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:06:24AM -0500, David Golden wrote: > Right now, various tools tail the NNTP feed. Who is doing that and > what would be a decent replacement? E.g. RSS?
I currently poll the NNTP server every hour for updates. I think the RSS feed would be fine to use to know what to update, if it was updated frequently enough. However, the bigger interest for me is whether I can grab the full reports in a bundle. A daily DB snapshot would be too infrequent for updates, but would be fine to ensure that everything was captured at the end of each day. Would requesting each report in turn be too much of a drain? I'm currently working on supplying all the current reports via the existing Reports site, this will then relieve the NNTP archive on perl.org. Once I've got it running live in the next week or so, there will be a difinitive URL template that can be used to display the SMTP or HTTP submitted reports. This can be used in the RSS feed to relieve any direct burden on the Metabase itself. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org>
