Posted on 2005-03-29 09:14:47-08 by b10m
RSS Feeds CPAN::Forum

I use the CPAN::Forum rss feeds, to see what's new. The only problem is that the titles usually don't tell me what module it is about. For instance 'Manual wanted', or 'Could anyone help with installation problem?' ... I have no clue what it's about. Could the RSS feeds be updated to show at least the module name in question? And a brief description of what's going on in the post would be nice too ;)

I have limited time free for such stuff, but if you want, I can probably help to add this...

... and I still don't like the markup of this site, I don't want to type HTML, especially not in this extremely limited-and-if-you-still-use-it-you'll-get-a-big-red-error way ;)

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Posted on 2005-03-29 09:20:33-08 by szabgab in response to 270
Re: RSS Feeds CPAN::Forum
sure I am not saisfied with the markup either but I want to make it XHTML, I think I can do it if I automatically add </p> tags when needed.
Once I have a little free time I add this to the todo list...

but if you have some free time to code it
The only big problem right now is that the test suit is broken.
Or is that the code ?

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Posted on 2005-03-29 13:28:20-08 by b10m in response to 271
Re: RSS Feeds CPAN::Forum

The markup can be still XHTML and made easier. I'd say throw in some Wiki formatting, or Markdown, or anything.

On the RSS feed, I think it'd be a rather easy hack to insert the actual post text (as description) and alter the title to, for instance, "[CPAN::Forum] RSS Feeds CPAN::Forum" (so with the actual module name in there). Easier would be to use a slightly different format. I think we'd better follow this up by email rather than posting here :) So drop me a line...

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