Provide more useful feed
| Project: | CVS integration |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Here's an example from the feed at http://drupal.org/cvs?rss=true&nid=3060:
<item>
<title>Commit 261598 by dries</title>
<link>http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=261598</link>
<description>
<!-- pretend this is all <div> and <a>'d up -->
Commit #261598 by Dries at 02:08
Drupal: /modules/help/help.api.php 1.7
- Patch #529316 by jhodgdon: fixed and improved hook_help() documentation.
</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">CVS commit 261598 at http://drupal.org</guid>
</item>Problems:
1. 261598 is a totally useless number for anything but clicking the link to read the full message. It should not be part of the title.
2. Arguably, the person who committed the patch is also not important, but I could see that being useful for certain circumstances. But since it's part of the title, it doesn't also need to be the first thing in the body.
3. Unquestionably, the most important part here is the commit message, which is currently buried under a ginormous list of files. No one cares that help.api.php got changed, they care /what/ got changed. We should re-order this so the most important data is at the top, IMO.
These together cause a feed reader like http://twitter.com/Druplicon or Bot module to end up with literally nothing useful in the vast majority of cases: http://twitter.com/Druplicon/status/3906820849.