From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 17:51:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A3E16A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:51:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org (nezlok.unixathome.org [66.154.97.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963D943D4C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:51:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D090657AB for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nezlok.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nezlok.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57787-06 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (CPE0004aca374af-CM0011e67a4a3b.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.26.229.230]) by nezlok.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D52C56C9 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1918B3D37 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:51:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:51:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <42CBE1E1.12114.158DBE9A@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at unixathome.org Subject: FreshPorts - newsfeed for your watch ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:51:50 -0000 Would a news feed for your watched ports be useful? It would require that you be logged in while fetching the news feed. I don't know the best way to accomplish that. If you fetch the news feed via wget or something like that, you're not going to be logged in etc. Many browsers, such as Opera, and Firefox, will fetch the news feed for you. If you're logged into FreshPorts, and your cookie is set, that fetch will work for you. If you're not, the fetch will result in a 403 (Forbidden), or something. Questions: 1 - do you want this? 2 - what's a good way to accomplish this? Other considerations: news.php now represents 13% of the website traffic. Adding yet more newsfeeds may increase traffic. It'd be nice to have a way to limit that. Mind you, with accounts, I can check when you last fetched it, and Just Say No. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/