GitHub does something like this, e.g. http://github.com/jeresig. See
the "Public Activity" section on the right.
Aaron
On 3/28/2010 8:24 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:
I know some systems (I'm thinking of CPAN and Gemcutter in particular) have
feeds of new releases -- maybe we could tap into those and note when
registered projects have new releases? I don't know if that's fine-grained
enough information for what folks want.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind<[email protected]> wrote:
Good point Aaron. Maybe that's possible, but I'm not seeing exactly what
the interface would look like. Without worrying about how to implement it,
can you say more about what you'd actually want to see as a user? Expand on
what you mean by "listens for feeds of specific types," I'm not sure what
that means. You'd like to see, what? Just initial commits by certain users,
and new stable releases on certain projects (or by certain users?). Or you
want to have an interface that gives you the ability to choose/search
exactly what you want to see from categories like these, accross a wide
swatch of projects chosen as of interest?
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet code4lib code (was: newbie)
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind<[email protected]>:
Hmm, an aggregated feed of the commit logs (from repos that offer
feeds, as most do), of "open source projects of interest to the
code4lib community." Would that be at all useful?
I think that's a start but I'd imagine that just a feed of the commit
logs would contain a lot of noise that would drown out what might
actually be interesting, like newly published gists, initial commits
of projects, new project releases, etc... I'm most familiar with
GitHub, which indicates the type of event being published, but I'm
sure other code repos do something similar. Would it be possible to
put something together using Views that listens for feeds of specific
types published by users in the code4lib community?
Aaron
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