This sounds like a great idea! Nathan
and Denis are probably the best people to ensure we don’t break the rss
feed.
Ian
From:
phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:phoenix-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Curtis D'Entremont
Sent: March 16, 2006 9:12 PM
To: phoenix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [phoenix-dev] RSS news
Hi,
I'm
in the process of adding live news to the eclipse welcome in the what's new
section. I intend to use the eclipse.org RSS as the source of the news. I would
like to know whether it is safe to assume that the URL to get the news and the
format of the news will remain the same for a reasonably long period of time
(e.g. a year). What I want to avoid is shipping eclipse and then something
changes and the news doesn't work because something changed on eclipse.org. Is
it safe to make these assumptions? For the format, as long as it's backward
compatible with RSS 2.0 it should be fine. The only things we'll be picking out
of the RSS are the item title and link.
Note
that it will fail very gracefully if it can't get the news for whatever reason,
e.g. no network connection. I just want to make sure the feature will still
work down the road.
Thanks,
Curtis
d'Entremont
Eclipse User Assistance
IBM Toronto Lab
Phone: (905) 413-5754
E-Mail: curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx
