[ILUG] RSS

[Paul Jakma]

Despite attending a talk a year or two ago by Ronan Waider on the 
wonderfulness of RSS (which went over my head at the time really), I 
never bothered looking into it much until recently.

However, I discovered "liferea" - liferea.sf.net (available in any 
good apt repository, eg debian or Dag's RPM repository) - which is 
quite a decent RSS reader, and have become addicted. So my questions 
are:

- Any recomendations for a cvs trigger script to allow one to 
provide an RSS feed of CVS commits? (I know Sourceforge can do this, 
and I've found a 'cvs2rss' script, but wondering if anyone has 
experience)

- Ditto for mailman. (there might be a mhonarc RSS thingy, but that'd 
involve changing from pipermail to mhonarc.. wondering if there's a 
better way)

   - subtopic: Could the ILUG list RSS feed be expanded to include the
     first X lines of the post in the actual RSS item?

- When will blogs.linux.ie be updated to include links to the people
   who have blogs on it? ;)

- Feed sources? Any recomendations for good feeds? For some strange 
reason none of the Irish news sites seem to have RSS feeds, even 
though some of the big RSS aggregators (moreover?) seem to be able to 
provide feeds with news from online.ie, irishexaminer.ie, etc. Do 
these aggregators construct the RSS feeds themselves by scraping - 
otherwise, where are the original RSS feed sources?

I have an OPML of the feeds i watch at:

 	http://hibernia.jakma.org/~paul/feedlist.opml

Finally, the potential flame-war question:

- Which RSS/RDF/whatever version is the one recomended to use? Some 
sites use RSS 0.91, some 1.0, some 2.0 (which appears to be an 
unofficial offshoot RSS version), some "RDF" ??. Arg!

I'd like to provide an RSS feed on a small site I run, but which damn 
specification should I be using?

regards,
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