[Tracker-discuss] List of recently modified issues

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> What I need is a list of
> recent tracker activities, a timeline starting at some fixed date
> (like 7 days back from now), including all ticker updates, e.g. status
> change, adding file attachments, new comments, etc. To put it another
> way, I don't want a mere list of recently changed tickets, but a list
> of changes, with some details about each of them (old and new status,
> attached file name, first words of a comment, etc).
> 
> I could program my way around this, by taking the list of all tickets
> in CSV format, choosing those which were recently updated and then
> asking Roundup for details about each of them (BTW, I don't see CSV
> download option for a single issue). This will be ugly and
> complicated, not to say inefficient. One RSS feed with recent updates
> generated on the Roundup side will be simply a better fit for my
> needs.

Ok. I think this would be a rather specific RSS feed, as including
the nature of the specific change in the RSS feed is nothing that
any of the existing RSS solutions for roundup provide; it would
be interesting to see whether the xmlrpc interface recently mentioned
provides it (I'd be mildly surprised if it did).

I don't think it needs to be RSS, and I would expect that making
it RSS makes things actually difficult (how do you encode what
specifically changed?). However, generating it on the server
side is certainly simpler.

I'd encourage you to check out the tracker installation, and
propose a solution. There are two ways for report generation
in roundup: you can either update it whenever a change is made.
This is efficient, but also fixed with respect to the
information available in the report. OTOH, generating the report
dynamically allows customization, but is also more
compute-expensive.

Regards,
Martin