In the comments of my last blog post someone asked for an automatically generated list of stable candidates. I have now created a RSS2 feed that shows ebuilds that have only ~arch keywords and have been in the tree for a month. The feed is updated daily and it keep entries for 7 days. It does not currently work in Thunderbird because Thunderbird seems to be buggy with feed items that don’t link to anything. Improvement suggestions are welcome. I should at least parse the bugzilla open bugs page to show how many bugs match category/pn.
You can find the feed here:
http://gentoo.petteriraty.eu/stable.rss
I’m curious what you used to generate the rss feed. Not the necessary portage-fu (to get the ebuilds, etc) but actually how the rss was generated.
I went looking for an easy to use rss generator a few months ago and came up with nothing.
Anyway, I’m just curious 🙂
RSS::Maker in ruby standard library but the RSS 2.0 standard is so simple that it’s not that hard with any good generic xml library either.
I am not sure what you mean by “parse the bugzilla open bugs”, but wouldn’t it be possible to to a query against the bugzilla db for zero hits, and only then add them to the feed? I have been following the feed for a bit now and there seems to be quite alot of them.