Re: PWN RSS

On Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 11:0030PM +0100, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:56:02 +0100 > Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> wrote: > > > On Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 09:0830PM +0100, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > > > releases.rss for the releases, which is only in english (took from > > > the DB) > > > > Hmm, what was wrong with http://pear.php.net/rss.php? > > Nothing :) "Save our server" ;-). These files are usually generated once > a week, or at least once per pearweb update (btw, when and how does that > happen ?), providing simple static files is good enough for this task. IMO generating the RSS files once per week is not sufficient. They should be created after every new release instead. > rss.php should be added to /rss.php as an information page and a short > list of which langage are available, what do you think ? No, rss.php should be a redirect to the new location, because without that all feed aggregators will fail, which is no good. > And it seems that I have better to get an updated local database, or > check why the hell, XML_RSS homepage is pointed by /rss rather than use > it... IMO /feeds is a more appropriate location for your stuff. BTW: Please discuss such changes on pear-webmaster@php.net before starting to implement it. That's what that list is for. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/