Wednesday
Jun292005
AppCasting
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 11:00AM
I discovered the concept of AppCasting today. It's an RSS feed that uses the enclosure to hold a URL to the release of your application. Throw in your ChangeLog and a message and, voila, instant announcement to all the people that subscribe. I plan to implement this for Telemetry. It would be very cool if more apps did this. We could get rid of the -announce lists...
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Not sure what is so new about announcing releases via RSS. Regarding "It would be very cool if more apps did this" - take Freshmeat only - they had this feature for ages: http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases-global.xml - it is not "more", it's tons...
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Good point! THe problem I have with freshmeat is that I, as a developer, have to go to Freshmeat and tell THEM I've release a new version. If Freshmeat (and interested users) subscribed to my Feed, they would know automatically.
I actually just found a link to the http://freshmeat.net/faq/view/49/" rel="nofollow">Freshmeat XMLRPC API that knocks out my other problem: I don't want to know about every damned project that Freshmeat updates. I only want to know about the ones I care about. I can subscribe via email, but until now I didn't see a way to get MY subscriptions as an RSS feed. I'm not 100% sure you can, but I bet scoop would facilitate the request.