Patches item #657951, was opened at 2002-12-23 14:17 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=657951&...

Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None

Priority: 7

Submitted By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Generate RSS summary in archives

Initial Comment: Here's a first-draft patch. Things that need fixing:

* The generated RSS feed needs to be validated. (It passed the W3C's RDF validator, but RSS validators still need to be checked.)

* The date should be given in YYYY-MM-DD format, which requires parsing the .fromdate attribute.

* How do I get the URL for an archived message? The generated RSS currently just uses the filename, which is wrong. How do I get at the PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL setting?

* Getting the most recent N postings is inefficient; the code loops through all of the archived messages and takes the last N of them. We could add .last() and .prev() methods to the Database class, but that's more ambitious for 2.1beta than I like. (Would be nice to get this into 2.1final...)

* The list index page should have a LINK element pointing to the RSS file.

Please make any comments you have, and I'll rework the patch accordingly.

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Comment By: Justin Mason (jmason) Date: 2003-03-26 16:49

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big thumbs up from me too. Much better solution than http://taint.org/mmrss/ ;)

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Comment By: Uche Ogbuji (uche) Date: 2003-03-17 20:09

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I'd like to add my vote to this item. This is a fantastic idea, Andrew. Thanks.

--Uche

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Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Date: 2002-12-23 15:42

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Updated patch:

* Dates are now rendered as ISO-8601 (date only, not the time of the message)

* By hard-wiring 2002-December, I got the RSS to validate using Mark Pilgrim's validator.

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Comment By: captain larry (captainlarry) Date: 2002-12-23 14:36

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Just voting for support here. This is *great* thanks for the patch and I hope the maintainers include it as soon as it's appropriate :)

Adam.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-23 14:27

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Deferring until post-2.1

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Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Date: 2002-12-23 14:21

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Argh; SF choked on the file upload. Attaching the patch again...

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