[Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated

From: "Kevin Rue-Albrecht" <kevin.rue at ucdconnect.ie>
To: "Stephanie M. Gogarten" <sdmorris at u.washington.edu>
Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 3:09:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated




Hi Stephanie,

I am using rss2email (
http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/
), 

a script that I installed to track my package feed, and that is
run by my Windows task scheduler every day, to send me the RSS news
in an email (not as an RSS feed per se)


Now, just like you I get the good and the bad news following the
nightly build. But since I get them as emails, I just set up a
filter to mark good emails as read and I move them directly in a
separate email folder (you could also delete them).

This way, only the bad news show up as unread messages which catch my
attention.


Took a bit of time to set up, but then it ran seamlessly ever since.

No extra work for Dan, and developers who might want to log the
successful builds can do so.

Hope that helps.

Kevin





On 3 December 2014 at 00:19, Stephanie M. Gogarten <
sdmorris at u.washington.edu > wrote:






On 12/2/14 8:17 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:




----- Original Message -----


From: "Julian Gehring" < julian.gehring at embl.de >
To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
Cc: "Felix Klein" < fklein at embl.de >
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:19:01 AM
Subject: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated

Hi,

some/many of the package build RSS feeds [1] don't receive updates.
For
example,

http://bioconductor.org/rss/ build/packages/DESeq2.rss (from
2014-11-04)

http://bioconductor.org/rss/ build/packages/BiocInstaller. rss (from
2014-10-15)

report package builds as broken, although the current builds are
fine.

In contrast,

http://bioconductor.org/rss/ build/packages/GenomicRanges. rss

was recently updated (2014-12-01) and also contains the build report
of
both the devel and release branch (the broken ones listed above
don't).

Most of the packages that I checked manually seem to be
outdated/broken
- I guess there is a issue with the underlying feed system.


Thanks for the report. I've had a look. I've changed the system so it
doesn't try to be smart about not updating feeds for packages that
do not have issues.
This means all package feeds will be updated daily, whether there is
an issue or not. Not sure if this will be annoying to feed users; we
can revisit it if it's an issue.

I have to say, I liked the old system better. I have a feed for each
of my packages in the bottom of my email program, so I could see at
a glance if there was a problem with one of the packages (new
message in the feed). Failure messages are a lot more noticeable if
they're not buried among lots of "nothing to see here" messages.

Stephanie






Thanks,
Dan





Best
Julian


[1] http://bioconductor.org/ developers/rss-feeds/