On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Victor Vasiliev <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everybody, > > For long time it was acknowledged that our current way of serving the > recent changes feed to users (IRC with formatting using funny control > codes) is one of the worst-suited for this purpose. It made the life > miserable both for users who had to parse it (since nobody is actually > reading it from IRC)
Note that some people *are* actually reading it from IRC. For example, I read it when I'm starting a bot run, if the bot is made quickly and doesn't output much info. -Liangent > and for developers who had to fit that thing into > IRC line length limit. Time passed, and many ways were suggested to fix > this (including <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Recentchanges_via_XMPP> > and > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_data_push_notification_support_for_recent_changes>), > but > nobody actually went ahead and made it work. > > After recent discussion on this list I realized that this has been in > discussion for as long as four years I went WTF and decided to Just Go > Ahead and Fix It. As a result, I made a patch to MediaWiki which allows > it to output recent changes feed in JSON: > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52922/> > > Also, I wrote a daemon which captures this feed and serves them through > WebSockets and simple text-oriented protocol which serves same JSON > without WebSocket wrapping (for poor souls writing in languages without > proper WebSocket support): > <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-rcsub> > > This daemon is written in Python using Twisted and Autobahn and it takes > ~200 lines of code (initial version took ~80). > > As a bonus, this involves no XML streaming in any form (unlike XMPP or > PubSubHubbub), so the unicorns are happy and unharmed, and minds of > programmers implementing this will remain unfried. > > I hope that now getting recent changes via reasonable format is a matter > of code review and deployment, and we will finally get something > reasonable to work with (with access from web browsers!). > > - -- Victor. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRPBffAAoJEHEOTaoYvDHXUCMP/jml/EGAxXLuz1sGrS5R0iRF > EJCjUKkysl1Gw0Wmr597UETtF1BCHh1myicGBN6tEjEd4N9rkNC8embBIdMjnlNN > KFfJeg4cSMhfIprjFQHdYjy3jw6mK1Kr87jc/KIWkDdWwoV5EmcbQ/cGc/UQrcd2 > 9cVmc3qUXWEf/oxhv3nGTfeW6gJDRZshpB66+YNr5LzAaBhroastW1r0b8UDXZt9 > 3u1BOr9lcHbi62DLqPOCH+aXljOidrjoWff+cV9CzUS9M4axcHThzu4Eo1s7EpgX > iWPVTuk3By3/EPxk9gJPETl7oPET6qNvNkUzix9Enu3iGuaWwEcano8xgFIfAWp8 > /Prf00xIe6VjMWssb3M+G9OkaclDBTPnMs9WxYMGHui8SZT62zQowJKeF+HrphjA > A/rrpHEfQz4TlutrvtPthSKTAICzuXDcnXLUxIHhvJfVF6iq57ntA8iJ2vrrqQge > ISOIZRgfDNQFb1UOER4P5VsXN1fKaP72OCSbP9smlVOtWgoCz0IqifdFSvc/Wo/O > Fj5cafbPPB8R0AqMb29bnv89u6SvVCh5Y3v9pK5523xo0LVP+WGXe+WNuxW9jjeZ > +y/d3EQTjl40pP/MzsBxR+BCz+Q84myjmpO0FvmPPxqxnA2bz0dSyfYyZlIIu7Mj > zesgY0TGThmu12q0Y068 > =oGgQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
