[ mailman-Patches-657951 ] Generate RSS summary in archives

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Patches item #657951, was opened at 2002-12-23 19:17
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Category: Pipermail
Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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 21:49

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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: 2003-03-18 01:09

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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 20:42

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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 19:36

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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 19:27

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Deferring until post-2.1

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Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2002-12-23 19:21

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

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