Hi,
on last CZ PACK meeting we have discussed the possibility of informing users about updates in BS projects. It is desirable to have some way of giving users a notice when some important changes take place (good example may be moving GNOME:STABLE to newer version or renaming of a project/package).
The best way would perhaps be creating some repository-bound feeds which YaST could display when updating or installing. Also such feeds should be accessible either through a separate mailing list (to not spoil already existing ones) or better as a RSS/ATOM feed. Input into the feeds should be both manual (for cases such as the aforementioned update of a whole repository) and automatic (triggered e.g. by a successful build of a new version of a package). Feed entries would need to have some priority flag, so that UI doesn't annoy users with not-so-important announcements.
Please fell free to comment...
Best regards Petr Cerny
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On 15/11/2007, Petr Cerny pcerny@suse.cz wrote:
The best way would perhaps be creating some repository-bound feeds which YaST could display when updating or installing. Also such feeds should be accessible either through a separate mailing list (to not spoil already existing ones) or better as a RSS/ATOM feed.
There are rss feeds for the repositories, for example the gnome:stable one is at
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.3/repoda...
just look at the repodata directory of any of the repositories in a web browser to see the repoview overview & repository feed.
e.g. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.3/repoda...
However, rss feeds are just pull-notifications, just like the repository metadata itself. The rss feeds can also be bigger than the metadata itself, certainly for just checking if things have changed. Furthermore the repository metdata already has the same information in a format the package manager & update notifier can understand, so they're not particularly useful imho.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Concepts/Notification for the proposed push-notification support, which will be very useful for notifying packagers, third party integrations etc.
-- Benjamin Weber
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