What about a service that tracks every new registered package?

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Just did it.

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For whatever reason, some packages wonā€™t install on my EC2 instance, and I need to figure it out before providing and URL. However, if you eager to try RSS feed, you can run it locally:

  1. Clone https://github.com/dfdx/PackageTracker.jl and all its dependencies.
  2. Run using PackageTracker; PackageTracker.main().
  3. Navigate your browser to http://localhost:8000/update to trigger DB update.
  4. Add http://localhost:8000/rss to your RSS reader.

Once I resolve the issue with EC2, Iā€™ll make updates automatic, so you will only need to point your reader to the right URL.

Note, that currently description in RSS items is populated from PRs body, but Iā€™m going to change it to take repo description or even first section of README. Other suggestions are also welcome.

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What is the status of the RSS, can we use it already? :slight_smile:

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Hopefully in the next few days.

I pushed the code to github already, but I want to actually deploy it while everyoneā€™s asleep

#testInProd

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Sorry for not posting back for a long time - I caught a cold at the beginning of this week and not working on RSS since that time. On the other hand, @djsegal seems to have a good progress on his news feed, so Iā€™m eager to see his results as well.

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hey @juliohm,

  • go to julia observer and click on news in the sidebar (desktop-only)
  • the new packages should be in the list (i.e. the rows with github logos)

is that what you wanted? if not, leave an issue

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Hi @djsegal and how do I filter the new packages only? Where is the RSS feed?

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  1. why do you need an RSS feed?
    a. what format would you want the RSS feed in?
    b. why does a website not fulfill the requirements?

  2. iā€™m completely for having a filterable feed, you just need to post an issue for it

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@djsegal thank you for your website, but this thread is all about the RSS feed. I am particularly not interested in checking a website everyday, I just need to open my feed reader and follow the new packages that were registered. It is more efficient, it saves a lot of time surfing on the web. Can you provide a RSS feed too? That would be great.

That is what I proposed initially and that is what @dfdx kindly decided to start working.

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For the time being, I also made the news feed filterable by api source (i.e. reddit, github, discourse)

tbh, I think this satisfies what you wantedā€¦

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Although site looks beautiful (I especially enjoy package README preview), I share @juliohmā€™s love to aggregation services allowing to read all the interesting news (not only Julia-related) in a single place without visiting many sites. Now Iā€™m back to development and going to deploy RSS feed in a day or two.

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Hereā€™s a preview:

http://34.250.53.36:8000/rss

Thereā€™s only one package in the database currently, but update script is scheduled to run every minute, so when a new package PR is merged, it will very soon become available in the feed.

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Thank you @dfdx, I am looking forward to add it to my reader, please let us know when the domain name is ready. :slight_smile:

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i added a package rss feed at:

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Awesome @djsegal this is tracking the newly registered packages only right? That looks great!

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I think so. I based my query off @dfdxā€™s.

If itā€™s not working as expected, please leave an issue

edit: code (w/ query) available at: /lib/tasks/news.rake

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I think itā€™s worth to use links to packages themselves, not PRs. I also thought about adding package repo description (a one-liner right under the tabs) to the feed so that a reader could understand what itā€™s about.

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How bout this?

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Awesome, that is looking great :slight_smile:

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Looks good to me as well! I guess thereā€™s no more need for me to keep a separate service for RSS, so Iā€™m going to shut down preview service soon.