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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:06:56 +0200
From:      Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org>, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re[2]: cvs commit: www/en index.xsl www/en/security Makefile errata-rss.xsl errata.rss www/share/sgml libcommon.xsl
Message-ID:  <1024051423.20080621100656@rulez.sk>
In-Reply-To: <87ve03647m.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Hello Giorgos,

Saturday, June 21, 2008, 2:07:09 AM, you wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:17:53 -0700, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>Murray Stokely wrote:
>>> Thanks for adding this.  It would be even more useful if this and the
>>> security advisory RSS feed included the text of those advisories
>>> rather than just the title.  Right now they are stored as text files
>>> on another host, but it would be great if we could work with security
>>> team to store these in a format more amenable to syndication by our
>>> RSS feeds.  CCing Colin in case he has any thoughts on this, and
>>> assuming he doesn't read www commit messages. =)
>>
>> What would we get by putting the complete advisory text into the RSS
>> feeds except a waste of bandwidth?  I can understand adding some more
>> information (say, the Topic), but throwing in everything seems a bit
>> extreme.

I don't think we need to add the whole advisory text into the RSS
feed. I would vote for adding "Probel Description" and "Impact" parts
of the advisory and then a link to the full text. What do you guys
think?

> How about adding *two* RSS feeds: a 'short' one, with the titles and a
> link to the real advisory, and a 'long' one with the full text?

I don't like this idea :-)

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                            mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org




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