[Adium-devl] [Adium-feedback] Project stats RSS feed now has URL entries preceding comments so comments are obscured in headlines

[Zachary West]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 16:24, Ronald D. Mabbitt <rdm0 at mit.edu> wrote:
> I use the RSS feed <http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/adium/.rss> all the
> time to keep in step with the development of Adium.  However, since April
> 16th, apparently when switching from 'trac' to 'hg', the location for the
> URL for each entry changed from following after the comments to preceding
> the comments.  As a result a
>  '<http://hg.adiumx.com/xxxxx/yyyyyy/XXXXXXXXXXX>' entry is displayed as the
> first value of each RSS entry.
>
> So imagine instead of looking through headlines of things like:
>
> Mercurialize the Release Makefile.  The if(svn) stuff can die off when ...
> 09/4/15 at 110:32 PM
> Copy a better fake even from Google Chrome...    09/4/15 at 9:07 PM
> Add 0 byte files with a suffix that will make our Release script remov...
>  09/4/15 at 8:18 PM
> Update secondary scripts to support the alternative source/build locat...
>  09/5/15 at 2:46 PM
> Removing some unnecessary ignores. <http://trac.adiumx.com/cha...  09/4/15
> at 2:29 PM
> Like [26999], allow a global ADIUM_BUILD_BASEDIR to override the B...
>  09/4/15 at 2:25 PM
>
> I now see things like:
>
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/www/adiumx.com/rev/bf9c6ba42990> Lin...  09/4/28 at
> 9:26 PM
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/adium/rev/61080b398496> Automated m...  09/4/28 at
> 8:29 PM
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/adium/rev/e72c1ec0419a> Fast enumerat...  09/4/28 at
> 8:29 PM
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/adium/rev/b00ce814efa0> Don't need this...  09/4/28 at
> 8:23 PM
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/adium/rev/9190be4ffd32> Opps. Fix a reg...  09/4/28 at
> 6:20 PM
> <http://hg.adiumx.com/www/adiumextras.com/rev/4241f346443e...  09/4/28 at
> 6:17 PM
>
> I normally use the RSS feed to quickly scan headlines, and only open
> webpages for items that I need to investigate in more detail.  With the RSS
> entry headlines displayed in the new manner, you can't scan anything, and
> have to open up each entry to see the comments.  One might as well go to the
> commit webpage  Since this completely defeats the purpose of using RSS to
> track changes, I'm hoping this can be fixed so that I can continue following
> the entries.
>
>                               -rdm
>
> P.S. My email got confused, and didn't indicate this email went out.  I'm
> resending it, and apologize if it's a duplicate entry.

Hi,

Sorry about the slow response. feedback@ isn't all that receptive
about development things (hence CCing adium-devl also).

This change was mostly made for the sake of IRC. CIA's bot will trim
the later part of a commit when pasting into IRC, thus preventing the
URL from showing up.

My suggestion would be to either sign up to the commits list[1], or
use the RSS feed from the google groups clone of the commits list[2].
This is your best bet for seeing less-sensitive-to-change message
formatting. Alternatively, there's also RSS feeds directly from
hgweb[3] but these require you pick which repository you want to use.

Any comments you have would be great, but I am not sure we're going to
change this behavior.

Zac West

[1] http://adiumx.com/mailman/listinfo/adium-commits_adiumx.com
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/adium-commits/feeds
[3] http://hg.adiumx.com/