[Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated

[Stephanie M. Gogarten]

On 12/2/14 8:17 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Julian Gehring" <julian.gehring at embl.de>
>> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>> Cc: "Felix Klein" <fklein at embl.de>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:19:01 AM
>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> some/many of the package build RSS feeds [1] don't receive updates.
>>   For
>> example,
>>
>>    http://bioconductor.org/rss/build/packages/DESeq2.rss (from
>>    2014-11-04)
>>
>>    http://bioconductor.org/rss/build/packages/BiocInstaller.rss (from
>>    2014-10-15)
>>
>> report package builds as broken, although the current builds are
>> fine.
>>
>> In contrast,
>>
>>    http://bioconductor.org/rss/build/packages/GenomicRanges.rss
>>
>> was recently updated (2014-12-01) and also contains the build report
>> of
>> both the devel and release branch (the broken ones listed above
>> don't).
>>
>> Most of the packages that I checked manually seem to be
>> outdated/broken
>> - I guess there is a issue with the underlying feed system.
>>
>
> Thanks for the report. I've had a look. I've changed the system so it doesn't try to be smart about not updating feeds for packages that do not have issues.
> This means all package feeds will be updated daily, whether there is an issue or not. Not sure if this will be annoying to feed users; we can revisit it if it's an issue.

I have to say, I liked the old system better.  I have a feed for each of 
my packages in the bottom of my email program, so I could see at a 
glance if there was a problem with one of the packages (new message in 
the feed).  Failure messages are a lot more noticeable if they're not 
buried among lots of "nothing to see here" messages.

Stephanie

>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
>
>> Best
>> Julian
>>
>>
>> [1] http://bioconductor.org/developers/rss-feeds/
>>
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