www/129401: FreeBSD Multimedia page should automatically pick up YouTube videos from 'bsdconferences' channel

[Murray Stokely]

The following reply was made to PR www/129401; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Murray Stokely" <murray at stokely.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: www/129401: FreeBSD Multimedia page should automatically pick up YouTube videos from 'bsdconferences' channel
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:17:26 -0800

 Note that in order to do this properly, we have a couple of
 pre-requisites.  For one thing, we need If-Modified-Since: support
 added to fetch(1) so that we can easily check RSS feeds in the web
 build without overloading web servers.  This is addressed in this PR :
 
 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/87841
 
 Then we need to decide on a standard way for the web build to cache
 content from other web servers between builds.  I propose storing
 downloaded RSS feeds in $TMPDIR/webbuild so that the downloaded feeds
 persist between builds (e.g., we can't keep it in $OBJDIR or make
 clean will wipe it out) but not between reboots.
 
 We can then call fetch with the new -i argument added by the patch in
 that PR to only download the content if the remote RSS file is newer
 than the cached version in $TMPDIR/webbuild.
 
 The rest is just simple XSLT/Makefile glue to actually parse and
 include dynamic content from external RSS feeds to our website.  This
 may make sense for Flickr, YouTube, Yahoo Upcoming, or other services.
 
        - Murray
 
 On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Murray Stokely <murray at freebsd.org> wrote:
 >
 >>Number:         129401
 >>Category:       www
 >>Synopsis:       FreeBSD Multimedia page should automatically pick up YouTube videos from 'bsdconferences' channel
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       non-critical
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-www
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          change-request
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 03 21:20:00 UTC 2008
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Murray Stokely
 >>Release:        N/A
 >>Organization:
 > FreeBSD Project
 >>Environment:
 > N/A
 >>Description:
 > We have a new YouTube Channel for BSD content.  There is a rich set of YouTube gdata apis to extract the videos from this channel.  The web build should download the RSS/AtomPub feed, extract videos from this channel tagged 'freebsd', and add them to the multimedia page.  The YouTube channel is at :
 >
 > http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences
 >
 > and the multimedia page I'm referring to is here :
 >
 > http://www.freebsd.org/multimedia/multimedia.html
 >
 > Information about the YouTube APIs is available here :
 >
 > http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html
 >
 >
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