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Posted on Tue Feb 8 16:38:03 2005 by davorg
RSS by Module Author

I really don't have time to keep up with another place where people could potentially be discussing my modules (and I _far_ prefer mailing lists to web forums) but I also don't want to miss out on any potentially interesting discussions on my code.

So, RSS to rescue I thought. I see that you have feeds per distribution. That gets a bit unmanageable with my dozen or so modules and would get even worse if I was a prolific author.

So what I'd like to see is an RSS feed for each CPAN author. That way I could just subscribe to http://cpanforum.com/rss/author/davecross in Bloglines and I'd see the discussions all in one place without all that tedious clicking about in cyberspace.

What do you think? Any chance of implementing it?

Dave...

p.s. And please fix the formatter so that it infers paragraph tags :)

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Posted on Tue Feb 8 16:50:32 2005 by szabgab in response to 61
Re: RSS by Module Author

Yes, this is a good idea. For this I need to keep the list of module authors in the database something I am not doing currently. For now you can subscribe for e-mail alerts for all of your modules which might be a pain for those who have lots of modules. (But maybe they can code something that will do it for them. ;) Anyway this should be in the TODO list.

Formatter ? Do you mean you also want single <p> tags or are you talking about how it looks after submitting ?

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Posted on Tue Feb 8 17:08:06 2005 by davorg in response to 62
Re: RSS by Module Author

Yes, this is a good idea. For this I need to keep the list of module authors in the database something I am not doing currently. For now you can subscribe for e-mail alerts for all of your modules which might be a pain for those who have lots of modules. (But maybe they can code something that will do it for them. ;) Anyway this should be in the TODO list.

That's great. Thanks. Please let me know when it goes live.

Formatter ? Do you mean you also want single <p> tags or are you talking about how it looks after submitting ?

I mean that I'm used to using forum software which recognises paragraphs (from the blank lines between them) and puts <p>...</p> tags around them automatically.

Like the "html_para" filter in TT.

One other request... please support <blockquote> tags :)

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Posted on Tue Feb 8 17:14:11 2005 by drhyde in response to 61
Re: Email to module author
Then there are those of us who don't do RSS, because there's no good pre-written RSS software, and RSS itself is too fat and bloated and XMLish for us to conveniently write our own. If the maintainers of this web site want me to pay any attention at all and so for discussions about my modules to be of any use, I need to be emailed whenever one of my modules is discussed. And I need to be able to reply, at least to the poster if not to the group, without having to waste time on registration jibber-jabber.

There is already an excellent place to report bugs in my code - rt.cpan, or by email. There are also many excellent places to *discuss* it too, such as perlmonks or your friendly local perl mongers group.

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Posted on Tue Feb 8 17:58:23 2005 by szabgab in response to 64
Re: Email to module author
You aren't too enthusiastic about this forum, are you.
E-mail back to the forum is on the TODO list but it seems like a bit of a work so it will take some time if I implement it at all.
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Posted on Sat Feb 12 20:37:48 2005 by adrianh in response to 61
Re: RSS by Module Author

  > So what I'd like to see is an RSS feed for each CPAN author

Ditto.

Also ditto for allowing blockquote tags ;-)

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