Re: Proposal: pulling newsbytes from www.pgfoundry.org

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> WWW team,
>>
>> In an effort to make PostgreSQL accessory projects more visible, I'd like
>> to start including the newsbytes from the pgfoundry main page in the
>> www.PostgreSQL.org news ticker. Probably the best way to do this is
>> direct database pull. Anyone have time to hack something up?
>>
>> Also, any reason not to do this? Just so you know, I do edit the newsbytes
>> for relevance and brevity.
>
> I would not like to add a direct dependency on the pgfoundry database,
> given the track record that pgfoundry has for uptime.
>
> I'd like to see some kind of RSS feed, because we already deal with
> caching of them there. That way, the main website will survive the
> regular pgfoundry outages (at worst it'll cache an empty file, and leave
> the pgfoundry list empty).

yeah - rss feed is the way to go if we want this

>
> Oh, and you need to figure out a way to integrate it nicely: see thread
> of a couple of days ago about adding more stuff to the frontpage. (No, I
> don't think mergeing it it with the "main news" functionality is a good
> idea - at least not unless we moderate it...)

iirc the pgfoundry main page news are already moderated - but we would
still have to find a solution to the integration problem.

Stefan