GitHub does something like this, e.g. http://github.com/jeresig. See the "Public Activity" section on the right. Aaron On 3/28/2010 8:24 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- Aaron Rubinstein Digital Project Manager W.E.B. Du Bois - Verizon Digitization Project Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts, Amherst Tel: (413)545-9637 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/