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I know some systems (I'm thinking of CPAN and Gemcutter in particular) have feeds of new releases -- maybe we could tap into those and note when registered projects have new releases? I don't know if that's fine-grained enough information for what folks want. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good point Aaron. Maybe that's possible, but I'm not seeing exactly what > the interface would look like. Without worrying about how to implement it, > can you say more about what you'd actually want to see as a user? Expand on > what you mean by "listens for feeds of specific types," I'm not sure what > that means. You'd like to see, what? Just initial commits by certain users, > and new stable releases on certain projects (or by certain users?). Or you > want to have an interface that gives you the ability to choose/search > exactly what you want to see from categories like these, accross a wide > swatch of projects chosen as of interest? > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Aaron > Rubinstein [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:33 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet code4lib code (was: newbie) > > Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]>: > > > Hmm, an aggregated feed of the commit logs (from repos that offer > > feeds, as most do), of "open source projects of interest to the > > code4lib community." Would that be at all useful? > > I think that's a start but I'd imagine that just a feed of the commit > logs would contain a lot of noise that would drown out what might > actually be interesting, like newly published gists, initial commits > of projects, new project releases, etc... I'm most familiar with > GitHub, which indicates the type of event being published, but I'm > sure other code repos do something similar. Would it be possible to > put something together using Views that listens for feeds of specific > types published by users in the code4lib community? > > Aaron > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library