Hello, Am Montag, 19. September 2005 15:17 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
jdd wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote: [...] a year ago or so I was subscribed to a newsletter from a freshmeat clone (icewalker or so) and received a notice for all packages submitted this day. One notice a day. I stopped receiving this because a mail failure and neglected to resubscribe. I know fresmeat makes something similar.
Indeed, freshmeat.net has such information. It's very short and consise, e.g. http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptraf/?branch_id=4549&release_id=207199
"This release includes major changes to the filtering system, including recognition of CIDR notation, additional protocol recognition, and automatic protocol name lookup. Interface support has also been expanded."
The good thing with freshmeat.net is that the information is available in a machine-readable format: http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/iptraf/iptraf.xml?branch_id=4549
Unfortunately, that "change" information does not seem to be included.
Maybe there's another way to get it ;-) Some time ago, I've written a script to split the daily freshmeat newsletter into one file per project. (I planned to do some "negative" filtering (category-based) and read the announcements of the remaining projects, but didn't really do it because of a lack of time.) However, a "positive" filter would be quite easy: just look if one of the projects you maintain as RPM has announced a new version (when using my script, a file with the project name [freshmeat unix name] will appear). It should be quite simple to extract the "changes" block from that file. If you are interested in my script, just ask. They were my first try in programming perl which means that they aren't perfect. But hey, they work ;-) [...]
Would be interesting as a monthly newsletter, written by various members of the openSUSE community, where anyone could take some time an submit an article like "hey, I found this interesting package" or "what's new in ...".
*looking optimistic* Given enough packagers and/or newsletter authors, a monthly newsletter would become too large - make it weekly ;-) Advantages of a more frequent newsletter: - not too large in size - so people really read it ;-) - news are published faster - with a monthly newsletter, they can be 29 days old until they get published... Regards, Christian Boltz -- Die Erde ist ein Würfel, das weiß doch wirklich jeder - und Amerika geht über drei Ecken davon, darum ist dort alles ein bißchen komisch. [Stefan Hundhammer in suse-programming]