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Month: December 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] RSS Feeds

From: "E. Liddell" <ejlddll@...>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:04:00 -0500
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:30:51 -0800 (PST)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:

> I don't know the technical requirements for offering an RSS feed. As a user, I can offer that the lack of news from Trinity is unsettling. :(

An RSS feed is just an XML document with a fixed location on the Web.  Hand-editing
something once a month would be far from impossible, if we don't have time for anything
better.

> We have a News section on the web site and eventually we should use that same text for an RSS feed.
> 
> Even if the news is not yet available through RSS, outsiders should see some sort of life at the News 
>section of the web site. A two sentence announcement is sufficient to show movement.

The question then becomes *what* to release--maybe condense a line or two out of each
monthly meeting?