On 20 Apr 2011, at 07:34, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Vanessa, > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:57:38PM -0300, [email protected] wrote: >> I was taking a look at some python libraries for twitter, they are pretty >> easy to use so making a script for automatically posting won't be a hard >> task. Now, what do we want to post? package updates/uploads? what else? >> >> For packages, is there a text file or something about the upgrades/updates >> so I can parse the data and tweet it? > > That's a bit difficult and perhaps some more research is needed. There > are those messages send by "Debian FTP Masters" to our developers > mailinglist (= the "maintainer") where you can see examples in the archive > for instande here[1]. Unfortunately there is not much information about > the package itself - at least the short description would be needed IMHO. > So what we could twitter might be: > > <package> - <short description obtained from UDD> uploaded [closing > #bugnumber] > > This could be triggered if a mail is recieved from FTP Master (so your > daemon could simply subscribe the list). I admit that I do not really > like this suggestion because it includes several weak parts. It might > make sense to discuss this on debian-devel/-mentors where other clever > people are listening and probably might come up with a better idea. > > Kind regards > > Andreas.
In addition to automated updates, it would be nice to have debian-med related commentary on the twitter feed; the launch of the blog, for example. I'm happy to post from time to time if you're happy for me to have the account details. Will > > [1] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2011-April/thread.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- William Spooner [email protected] http://www.eaglegenomics.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
