Re: RFC: Syndicating PEAR Weekly news?

On Thu Aug 29, 2002 at 02:0505PM -0700, 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) That's exactly what I proposed when Alan introduced the weekly news. At that time we finally decided to implement such a system at a later time. It seems like this "later time" is now :). If you want to implement the thing, please go ahead. An example how we generate RSS feeds for PEAR can be found in pearweb/public_html/rss.php, but it shouldn't be that hard to get it done without the example either ;-). -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/