Comments on: Re: RSS Feeds for Subversion http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/ ... finding time to write something useful is nontrivial ... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:58:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Matt Harrah http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Matt Harrah Thu, 08 May 2008 13:04:07 +0000 http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/#comment-170 Hudson's RSS feeds are for builds, not change logs. If you keep things in your repository (like artwork repositories, or things like that) that don't trigger a build, you won't get notified that way. Additionally, you won't get a notification for each checkin, you'll get a notification for each build. Depending on the frequency of your SCM polling in Hudson you will potentially get one build for multiple checkins. Additionally, if your build is time-scheduled rather than check-in scheduled, it won't really keep you informed about checkins so much as keeping you informed about builds. Admittedly, this is splitting hairs. In the majority of cases, knowing what built and what went into it is what you want, and Hudson's RSS feeds are great for this. But if you need to truly monitor activity in the repository for audit reasons or to help document what problem employees have been doing, Hudson's RSS feeds don't really cut it. Hudson’s RSS feeds are for builds, not change logs. If you keep things in your repository (like artwork repositories, or things like that) that don’t trigger a build, you won’t get notified that way. Additionally, you won’t get a notification for each checkin, you’ll get a notification for each build. Depending on the frequency of your SCM polling in Hudson you will potentially get one build for multiple checkins. Additionally, if your build is time-scheduled rather than check-in scheduled, it won’t really keep you informed about checkins so much as keeping you informed about builds.

Admittedly, this is splitting hairs. In the majority of cases, knowing what built and what went into it is what you want, and Hudson’s RSS feeds are great for this.

But if you need to truly monitor activity in the repository for audit reasons or to help document what problem employees have been doing, Hudson’s RSS feeds don’t really cut it.

]]> By: Mike McKinney http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Mike McKinney Wed, 07 May 2008 16:04:05 +0000 http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/#comment-168 FYI: if you use Hudson for continuous integration, it's already got RSS feeds for change logs. FYI: if you use Hudson for continuous integration, it’s already got RSS feeds for change logs.

]]> By: links for 2008-05-07 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/comment-page-1/#comment-167 links for 2008-05-07 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:41 +0000 http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/#comment-167 [...] RSS Feeds for Subversion The RSCM (Ruby Source Code Management) gem provides a nice interface to SVN, CVS, ClearCase, StarTeam, etc. and since it’s written in pure Ruby, it runs just fine on the JVM. (tags: jruby rss subversion) [...] [...] RSS Feeds for Subversion The RSCM (Ruby Source Code Management) gem provides a nice interface to SVN, CVS, ClearCase, StarTeam, etc. and since it’s written in pure Ruby, it runs just fine on the JVM. (tags: jruby rss subversion) [...]

]]> By: Matt Harrah http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Matt Harrah Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:26 +0000 http://blog.huikau.com/2008/05/06/re-rss-feeds-for-subversion/#comment-166 Hahaha!!!! That's brilliant!!! (And yes, I knew it was coming...) Seriously, though, without a doubt Ruby is very expressive and makes nice, tight source files; combined with JRuby you're going to get great performance too. Hahaha!!!! That’s brilliant!!! (And yes, I knew it was coming…)

Seriously, though, without a doubt Ruby is very expressive and makes nice, tight source files; combined with JRuby you’re going to get great performance too.

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