Remko Tronçon's Homepage 2012-05-19T12:29:42+02:00 http://el-tramo.be/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ 2006-12-04T00:00:00+01:00 http://el-tramo.be/blog/svnfeed-01 <p>If it wasn&rsquo;t clear by now, I&rsquo;m pretty addicted to RSS. Some people disagree, and see RSS as evil because of the extra traffic that active polling of the feeds introduces. To me, it&rsquo;s the easiest way of publishing news, anyone can set up a feed on about any host, and because of the polling nature it allows for easier scripting than other solutions. Besides, with web-based solutions like <a href="http://google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>, the extra traffic can be shared across many users anyway.</p> <p>The only frustration I am left with is that not every webpage or software package that interests me has an RSS feed. I wrote <a href="http://el-tramo.be/software/atomail">AtoMail</a> to have an RSS feed of projects (or webpages) that have mailinglists instead of RSS feeds. In addition to this script, I just released a script called <a href="http://el-tramo.be/software/svnfeed">SVNFeed</a>, which I use to monitor Subversion activity of projects that don&rsquo;t have an RSS-enabled Subversion Web interface. By monitoring the <tt>tags</tt> dir of a project, I can even get a more coarse grained granularity of updates, mostly up to the release.</p> <p>Both scripts might be consolidated in the future, possibly together with even more RSS generation scripts I have lying around ;&ndash;)</p>