cvs commit: www/en index.xsl www/en/security Makefile errata-rss.xsl errata.rss www/share/sgml libcommon.xsl

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:17:53 -0700, Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Murray Stokely wrote:
>> Thanks for adding this.  It would be even more useful if this and the
>> security advisory RSS feed included the text of those advisories
>> rather than just the title.  Right now they are stored as text files
>> on another host, but it would be great if we could work with security
>> team to store these in a format more amenable to syndication by our
>> RSS feeds.  CCing Colin in case he has any thoughts on this, and
>> assuming he doesn't read www commit messages. =)
>
> What would we get by putting the complete advisory text into the RSS
> feeds except a waste of bandwidth?  I can understand adding some more
> information (say, the Topic), but throwing in everything seems a bit
> extreme.

It's about as extreme as adding the full text of blog posts in RSS feeds
all over the world.  Some people may find it useful, others may find it
a waste of bandwidth.

How about adding *two* RSS feeds: a 'short' one, with the titles and a
link to the real advisory, and a 'long' one with the full text?

This way the reader of the feed has a choice of picking up what they
find more useful :-)