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title: "ChangeLog to RSS web service"
date: 2003-09-02T13:44:18-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/09/02/cl-to-rss/
author: Les Orchard
---

# ChangeLog to RSS web service

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Hanging out on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.org/joiito">joiito on IRC</a> today,
I read <a href="http://www.jspwiki.org/Wiki.jsp?page=JanneJalkanen" target="_top">Ecyrd</a> asking
around about any tools to present <a href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_42.html" target="_top">GNU-style changelogs</a>
as an <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> feed.  I couldn't find any, but I did find
<a href="http://people.redhat.com/jrb/files/changelog2.py" target="_top">this changelog parser</a>, apparently
by <a href="http://people.redhat.com/jrb/" target="_top">Jonathan Blandford</a>.  So,
when I had a few free minutes, I took some parts I had laying around, along
with this parser, and made this:

<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/2003/08/cl2rss?cl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecyrd.com%2F%7Ejalkanen%2FJSPWiki%2Fnightly%2FChangeLog"><img src="http://www.decafbad.com/images/xml.gif" border="0" /></a> - <a href="http://www.ecyrd.com/~jalkanen/JSPWiki/nightly/ChangeLog">Changelog for JSPWiki</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/2003/08/cl2rss.txt" target="_top">Source code for cl2rss</a>
</li>
</ul>

This is at the "it works" stage.  It needs much work in what it presents
in an <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS">RSS</a> feed, so feel free to suggest changes!
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221085069" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-09-02T13:47:44">2003-09-02T13:47:44</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) can output logs in XML. It is really easy to use XSLT to generate RSS from these logs.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221085070" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-09-02T13:50:22">2003-09-02T13:50:22</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Well, the thing about this particular case is that this ChangeLog file is hand-maintained in the GNU style.  I've also seen that Emacs has some tools for maintaining these files as well.  Otherwise, there're tools for CVS logs to RSS as well.

I do keep meaning to check out Subversion though.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/">Janne Jalkanen</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221085071" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-09-02T15:40:06">2003-09-02T15:40:06</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Man, I owe you at least two beers now.  Thanks again! :-)</div>
            
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