RSS Feed for the admin/reports/updates
gordon - March 21, 2007 - 23:29
| Project: | Drupal |
| Version: | 8.x-dev |
| Component: | update.module |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
It would be nice if an RSS feed could be created so that when a module it is updated it will be listed on the RSS feed.
This will make it really easy to monitor many sites.
#1
do you mean an RSS feed generated by this module for specific sites that are out of date, or do you mean an RSS feed of new release nodes directly from drupal.org? if you're talking about the later, see http://drupal.org/node/94138. if you're talking about the former, seems kind of scary to make an RSS feed available for when your site is out of date, no? ;) i guess it'd have to be a feed that requires authentication and all of that. sounds like kind of a hassle. personally, seems like it be a lot easier to just do the email notification stuff folks are talking about in http://drupal.org/node/124715.
can you please clarify exactly what you have in mind?
thanks,
-derek
#2
The RSS feed that I am suggesting would be a list of all the modules that are out of date on a site.
This way you would get notified when a module on a site is out of date.
#3
+1 I would love to have this feature, too.
How would security be handled on this feed? I don't want to broadcast to the world what out of date and security holes I have in my site. Like many, i don't update immediately all the time. Any thoughts?
I was thinking 2 possibilities. One would be the feed being password protected. While that's great it won't work in some feed readers. Or, having something like /admin/log/updatestatus/feed/somefeedkey.
In any case I think the feed should be optional and maybe configurable to which choice of the two above. Oh, and it would be nice to track subscriptions on this feed.
#4
I see it working based upon the user security now, and using something like httpauth http://drupal.org/project/httpauth to provide access to secured feeds
#5
Hmm. An RSS feed *would* make for a convenient way to see the status of several sites at once. I'll consider patches. Access to the RSS feed will be the same as access to the admin page, but adding httpauth module will help people out.
#6
I'm not adding new features to D5 update_status in contrib. The next best chance to see this feature is in D7 core, if someone wants to work on it before the code freeze...
#7
Bumping to 8.x