Re: [BuildStream] Proposal: spreading responsibility and maintainership [Was: 1.4 Release timeline]

[Angelos Evripiotis <angelos evripiotis gmail com>]

Heya,

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 09:38, Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk> wrote:

Hi Angelos !

On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 07:35 +0000, Angelos Evripiotis wrote:
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> For the notifications, I'm looking at sharing some useful RSS feeds
> for folks that want to stay on top of everything. One of the things it
> could do is separate WIP updates from non-WIP. I think that's probably
> already possible with email filters, although I'm using these RSS
> feeds instead myself.

It's a tough one, I personally like to receive this in my inbox, but
haven't bothered with the tedium of setting up filters in many years
(even if I am subscribed to around a dozen mailing lists, they all just
come to my few inboxes).

Can you share how we would interact with these feeds ? Do we have to
install some feed reader software to use them ? or are there ways we
can get this converted into emails that we can provide easy
instructions on how to subscribe ?

Cheers,
    -Tristan

Ah yes, if you’re not already an RSS person then you may have some hurdles. I’ve found it to be a great way to stay informed from lots of sites though.

Personally I’m paying for a 3rd party aggregator, “Feedbin”, which polls the feeds I’m interested in. I can use their web interface to catch up on feeds.

I also have a paid client on my phone “Reeder”, which connects to the aggregator and gives me a nice on-the-go experience.

With feeds you do lose the nice reply-to-comment functionality. It also doesn’t have diffs, maybe I’d augment them with those if there’s enough interest. There’s also the possibility of data loss, since it is polling-based and has a 20 item history.

I think the main value added would be the filtering I’ve already done in setting up separate feeds. I also like keeping it separate from my email, I treat it mostly as news. I still have email notifications set to ‘participate’.

Cheers,

Angelos