Re: RFC: Syndicating PEAR Weekly news?

I like the idea. This would allow us to keep archives of the news as well. eric On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote: > I think that Alan's Weekly News is a 'very good thing' (TM), IMHO it might be > even better if we had an RSS feed of the news. The advantage is multiple: > > 1) We can generate the HTML from the RSS document > 2) We can also make plain text for email distribution > 3) Other sites can pick the RSS as any other news feed > > The translations are good too, but I am not sure how much value they are adding > to the whole. Making the news more easily distributable might be more efficient > in terms of results/effort ratio (a new index I'll call the > 'write-once-get-lots-of-noise' factor). > > I can imagine a simple web based form where Alan (and/or the translators) put > the text for each new item, and valid RSS is generated automagically. Which can > always be edited by hand by people with XML-warped minds and fingers ;-). Then > once the news feed is aproved and ready to go, HTML is generated, an plain text > email goes to pear-general, and it is copied to a canonical URL, e.g. > http://pear.php.net/pwn.rss (for PEAR Weekly News) > > Any ideas, comments, better names for the WOGLON index? ;-) > > > > > ===== > --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) > > Research: > http://metallo.scripps.edu/ > Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >