[Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Rue-Albrecht" <kevin.rue at ucdconnect.ie>
> To: "Stephanie M. Gogarten" <sdmorris at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 3:09:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] RSS package feeds not updated
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> Hi Stephanie,
> 
> I am using rss2email (
> http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/
> ), 

(incidentally written by the late Aaron Swartz)


> a script that I installed to track my package feed, and that is
> run by my Windows task scheduler every day, to send me the RSS news
> in an email (not as an RSS feed per se)
> 
> 
> Now, just like you I get the good and the bad news following the
> nightly build. But since I get them as emails, I just set up a
> filter to mark good emails as read and I move them directly in a
> separate email folder (you could also delete them).
> 
> This way, only the bad news show up as unread messages which catch my
> attention.
> 
> 
> Took a bit of time to set up, but then it ran seamlessly ever since.
> 
> No extra work for Dan, and developers who might want to log the
> successful builds can do so.


I don't consider it 'extra work' to restore a feature that was there and used to work. I do think 'no news is good news' is a good feature (I think it's also good to be notified when the build has returned to normal, so the system should only notify when build status changes) but it needs to work properly, so I'll try and figure out why it wasn't working and restore it. Then I'll let you know so you can remove your filter if you want.

Dan


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> Hope that helps.
> 
> Kevin
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> On 3 December 2014 at 00:19, Stephanie M. Gogarten <
> sdmorris at u.washington.edu > wrote:
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> On 12/2/14 8:17 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> 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
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> Thanks,
> Dan
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> Best
> Julian
> 
> 
> [1] http://bioconductor.org/ developers/rss-feeds/
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> Kévin RUE-ALBRECHT
> Wellcome Trust Computational Infection Biology PhD Programme
> University College Dublin
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