[Buildbot-devel] RSS feeds and microsummaries

[Brian Warner]

> I'd really like an RSS feed from the buildbot server, and I think would 
> be pretty useful and fairly simple to implement.
> Is anyone working on this? It'd be really cool to provide microsummaries 
> too.

That'd be great. Search the archives for my posts about "web parts" for some
background about my plans.. to my knowledge nobody is working on an RSS feed
at the moment (myself included), but I'd like you to be aware of the planned
framework your work can eventually fit into.

> Is there any interest in having an XML buildbot status feed, and using 
> that and XSL to create the waterfall page? It'd enable
> people to make their own custom feeds without having to make changes on 
> the buildbot side.

Woah. If you can write an XSLT program that can generate that Waterfall
table, I'll buy you lunch. You're crazy :). I nearly went insane trying to
build it in Python.

But yeah, it would be nice to have some amount of buildbot status available
in a variety of machine-parseable formats. My hope is that the "web parts"
project (to make the Waterfall merely one form of web status page, and make
it easy for admins to pick and choose what kinds of status pages they want to
display) will give such an XML feed a URL to live and a config-file syntax to
setup. The RSS feeds (various ones for things like all builds of a certain
branch, all builds for a certain set of builders, all failing builds, etc)
will benefit from this in the same way.

scared, but in a good way,
 -Brian