Re: Wiki Changes RSS

Il giorno 18/feb/07, alle ore 21:52, Rotan Hanrahan ha scritto:

>
> For each idea there is a plus, and a minus.
>
> Obviously, if the RSS carried each updated page as full content  
> then everyone on the feed would get immediate visibility of the  
> changes.
>
> That would be good except for two things:
> 1. We are going to be making a lot of changes and
> 2. Some of our regularly changing pages are very big.
>
> For an example of a big page, look at the Ecosystem wiki pages, one  
> of which is an aggregate of all the others to represent the final  
> document that will be published as a W3C WG Note. If you were to  
> receive a full copy of this draft Note every time I (or any other  
> wiki author) changed a word here or there, you'd be complaining  
> that your inbox is overflowing. Same for any pages with big entries  
> (the Protégé screenshots, the impending IDL examples etc.)
>
> I will admit that I'm having a bit of trouble with my own RSS  
> client, and will be looking for a better one soon, so I haven't  
> seen what the wiki RSS is delivering. My expectation is that it  
> merely alerts me to which pages are changed, gives me a link to  
> that page and also tells me the comment that the author used when s/ 
> he changed the page. That's about all I really need to know.

Right now the RSS doesn't say anything. Author's comment would be  
good too at least you'd know if it was a minor change such as  
correction of a typo or a consistent change.

- Andrea

Received on Monday, 19 February 2007 09:38:19 UTC