On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > I've produced a script[0] to parse d-d-changes archives to a sane format so to > produce an history of uploads made to debian[1] in this form:
Very cool! > comments/ideas welcome as usual, I think the greatest part of your work is that you crunched the mail archives, which weren't really accessible, and put them in a format which is more accessible. Still, the format you choose is it not *that* accessible either (but hey, it is way better than before :)). As the data encoded by d-d-changes is basically timed change notifications, I would say that the more appropriate format to represent it is a feed format, such as RSS or Atom, what do you think? Having such a format would enable cool stuff to be created quite easily (e.g. even using, say, Pipes), such as per-maintainer feed changes. Personally it is something I would like to have linked from the DDPO. It shouldn't be to hard to convert (or maybe pair) your format to RSS, with an appropriate XML encoding of its content, shout if you want to discuss a potential DTD. Maybe a bit harder can be to provide more lively updates, as if one then wants to use RSS as such, weekly updates are too coarse grained ... Many thanks for the idea! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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