GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306160
Add RSS feeds to archive pages of mailing lists
Last modified: 2013-05-10 11:10:19 UTC
Public mailing lists could provide RSS feeds and reference those on the archive pages of mailman lists. mail-archive.com does this for mailing lists, and I've found it incredibly useful for occasionally dipping into lists that are either higher traffic than the investment I want to put in, or only have very occasional posts. See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-June/msg00000.html for the original proposal. See http://www.mail-archive.com/gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/ for an example of an RSS feed in archives.
Someone suggested using gmane - ddl is archived with an RSS feed at http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop I like having the RSS feed referenced in the web-page, so it seems nicer to copy the code that generates the RSS, and include that into Mailman somehow.
Header to add to mailman list archive pages to make stuff work nicely with live bookmarks and the like: <link rel="alternate" title="list-name RSS" href="http://url.of.list/rss.xml" TYPE="application/rss+xml">
Using gmane rss is the ASAP thing to do, however, do they support all lists listed in http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ ? , do they take care if a new list is created ? With the script I have in mind we do as we parse http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ and write a rss file to disc for every list listed in there, it would check html size or other info of the list page to avoid parsing and writing to disc lists that have not changed since last time (for low-trafic and "frozen" lists like "gnome-guadec" or "vote"). Besides apart from having a rss file for every list we can create a php script to act as a frontend to all of them, like: http://mail.gnome.org/rss.php?list=gnome-games&items=15 that would just read that feed gnome-games.rss from disc and returned it with the specified number of items... As the php scripts reads online pages we can put it in any machine (www,blog,etc...). Also if a new list is created its feed would be created automatically too, in gmane I dont know if they take care of new lists. What do you thing of all this, overenginered? , you like it?... of course although I have reuse-code to do the above it will take me a time, I can do it during this summer after finishing classes, but if you think is useful and gnome could accept it...
Nelson Benitez: Suggest to integrate this with Mailman (or whatever is used for the archives). Hrm.. seems to exist already: http://taint.org/mmrss/ Searching for mailman rss gives a lot of results.
Something that we can do immediately is to add either normalös links or <link> headers to the mailling list summary page.
2005-07-31 Michael Schumacher <schumaml@cvs.gnome.org> * mail_lists.htrw * admin/gimp-web-urls: added RSS feeds for some mailing lists. Addresses parts of bug 306160.
gimp-user, gimp-developer and gegl-developer are linked to their mail-archive rss feeds. If gimp-docs should be added, too, then it will have to be archived there first.
RSS is dying*. I assume the few reamianing users of it know where to go (gmane, for example) to receive mailing lists via RSS. *and I'm not sure if mailing lists themselves are that 21st-centuryish, either :) Resolving as obsolete.