On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think that irc feed of recent changes is working great, but there is > still a lot of space for improvement. > > As Ryan Lane suggested once, we could probably use system of queues > instead of irc which would be even more advanced. My suggestion is to > create some kind of feed that would be in machine parseable format, > like XML > > This feed would be distributed by some kind of dispatcher living on > some server, like feed.wikimedia.org and offering not just recent > changes but also a recent history (for example last 5000 changes per > project) > > In case that service which is parsing this feed would be down for a > moment, it could retrieve a backlog of changes. > > The current feed irc.wikimedia.org should stay, but we could change it > so that the current bot is retrieving the data from new xml feed > instead of directly from apaches. >
There's been a request for years to provide this data with XMPP. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/17450 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30555 also seems related to the RFC. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
