Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Heya, it would be great to have a RSS and/or Atom feed for the news section of the Debian homepage (and possibly a different one for the advisories listed there too). I know it's stuff one can already follow via mailing list(s), but a lot of people these days uses feeds directly, I think we can offer a service to more users offering both.
Now, I've written before helpers that generate RSS, and I'm willing to contribute one for this specific case. Nevertheless the README files under News/ are a bit scary in stating that only press/webmasters should fiddle with them, so I'm looking for advice. Where can a script that generates RSS/Atom (and commits it?) can be hooked at in the process of maintaining the HTML listing of news on the website homepage? An alternative less invasive solution would be to have a separate script elsewhere checking out periodically from CVS the News/ directory, generate the RSS feed, and have it referenced from the homepage. That would work, wouldn't be that much at stake with feed technology (which does pull anyhow), but somehow doesn't feel "right". Any hint? Thanks for maintaining www.d.o! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
