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Edit History as RSS Feed
Hi:
I really like Ohloh, and I would love to track it even more closely. Would it be possible to make the Edit History
available as RSS Feed?
I'm talking about the items on this page, for example:
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/drjava/edits
Also, while I find the messages like Changed best\_analysis\_id to 221575
interesting, even without knowing what they mean, is there a reference? Or could these messages be improved to elaborate on the change?
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Changed best_analysis_id to 221575
by The Ohloh Hamster
means that the ohloh system (i.e. the hamster) re-analysed the code and the new code has id 221575. There is no particular significance to the id, except that it's an index into the underlying database tables.
Thanks for your response, Stuart. Is there a way to peer into the database to further discern what that id means?
My memory on this issue is a bit foggy, but I believe that at one time we did have an RSS feed for the edits page, but we had to remove the feature for performance reasons. For various technical reasons, the project edit history is rather expensive to generate, and publishing it as an RSS feed led to a lot of queries against it.
BTW, I admit that the best_analysis_id business is rather mysterious to a non-Ohloh-administrator. The IDs are very handy for me personally because I need those IDs when I investigate various problems with our analysis results. However, for an outsider there's not much to be learned (other than the news that the analysis did indeed get updated). We could probably change the text that is presented to a non-administrator to something more friendly.
As a new feature, we could possibly come up with some kind of news-worthy text like A new analysis is ready, and 5 new commits were added with 100 new lines of code
or something. Maybe someday....
It's tempting to suggest that project RSS feeds could be generated through the API with a little XSLT, but I won't look into that if there are performance issues...