[Zope-CMF] Syndication Tool Docs - broken links

[Jon Edwards]

Hi Andrew,

I'm just starting the transition from DTML to Python, but if someone gives
me a map and a machete, I'll happily start hacking! ;-) ...or preferably,
help someone better-qualified!

Thinking aloud...

These are the existing Zope products I have found that do a similar
function -

http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/ChannelTag

http://www.zope.org/Members/edmundd/SiteSummary

http://www.zope.org/Members/EIONET/RDFSummary - built on top of SiteSummary

http://www.zope.org/Members/cguardia/meerkat/ - actually, this uses XML-RPC
to connect to the Meerkat service, included for completeness!

...and if you're on Windows, and a news-junkie, www.feedreader.com has a
nice free product to play with! :-)

RadioUserland also does a lot with incoming and outgoing RSS feeds, maybe we
can "borrow" some ideas from them? ;-)

I've used SiteSummary and it was very easy to setup. The only problem was
getting it to update the RSS feeds regularly. I tried Xron, but had
problems - it was firing every 6 seconds instead of every 30 minutes!

That would seem to raise one area for discussion - do you tell people to use
Xron for updating (or the TaskKit from Webware
http://www.python.de/docs/QuickStart.html?), or do you provide built-in
scheduling-functions, perhaps based on the proposed events tool
(http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/proposals/EventsTool)?

Would some sort of task-scheduler be a useful addition to the events tool?
One use-case would be to trigger daily-digests of the proposed
maillist/weblog cross, rather than emailing every update individually?

I guess the incoming RSS feeds would be parsed into individual items (as
SiteSummary does) - perhaps based on CMF-links objects? Would people want to
archive these, or should the next update just over-write the existing ones?

HTH

Cheers, Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sawyers [mailto:andrew@digicool.com]
Sent: 24 June 2001 05:25
To: Jon Edwards; Zope-Cmf
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] Syndication Tool Docs - broken links

In regards to the incoming feeds, I started on a little on the conception
phase, but have been assigned to do other things.  Maybe we can get some
discussion started on it, so when we have the resources reallocated to
handle it, we've got a head start (or if someone else wants to do it, that's
great too!).
Thanks Again,
Andrew