Good bye!

On 28 June 2012 20:44, Craig Woodward <woody@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the feed service for the site does not offer a self-signup e-mail
> version.

1) Subscribe council@maemo.org here:
https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community

2) Write code to parse RSS here:
http://maemo.org/community/council/rss.xml

3) Write code to send parsed RSS as email:
--------8<--------
From: "Community Council blog" <council@maemo.org>
Subject: [Council] $item->{title}
To: "Maemo Community mailing list" <maemo-community@maemo.org>

$parsedText

-- /* sig sep, note space after two dashes */
This was automatically syndicated from the Maemo Community Council
blog: http://maemo.org/community/council/
For more information on the Maemo Community Council, visit the
homepage: http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council
-------->8--------

This'd be a good test for people talking about community
infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)

Cheers,

Andrew

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On Thursday 28 June 2012 21:18:22 Andrew Flegg wrote:
> This'd be a good test for people talking about community
> infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
> do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)

No script needs to be written: off-the-shelf packages exist. Personally I use
rss2email.

But it does need somewhere to run.

for crying out loud, you are arguing about the sex of angels and meanwhile
the castle is going down in flames :mad:

On 29 June 2012 00:15, Graham Cobb <g+770@cobb.uk.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 June 2012 21:18:22 Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > This'd be a good test for people talking about community
> > infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
> > do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)
>
> No script needs to be written: off-the-shelf packages exist. Personally I
> use
> rss2email.
>
> But it does need somewhere to run.
>

AFAIK, we're talking about improving automatic stream of info for
mailing list ;)

On 28 June 2012 23:15, Graham Cobb <g+770@cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2012 21:18:22 Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> This'd be a good test for people talking about community
>> infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
>> do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)
>
> No script needs to be written: off-the-shelf packages exist.  Personally I use
> rss2email.

Ah, cool. Thought it was likely to exist. And it looks trivial to use:

http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/#unix

> But it does need somewhere to run.

I've just installed it on bleb.org and done:

$ r2e new testemail@bleb.org # This would be maemo-community@maemo.org
$ r2e add http://maemo.org/community/council/rss.xml
$ cat >.rss2email/config.py <<EOC
DEFAULT_FROM = 'council@maemo.org'
DATE_HEADER = 1
SMTP_SERVER = "localhost:25"
FORCE_FROM = 1
EOC
$ r2e run --no-send

Then put a cronjob in place for every 15 minutes to do 'r2e run'.
Seems to work perfectly.

I'm happy to set this going at maemo-community@maemo.org, if someone
on the council can subscribe council@maemo.org to the list.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Done.

I've registered and set the delivery to disabled for now, since we're all already on the list and don't need duplicates of all the mail (even in a digest form) if avoidable. If that will block incoming mail, let me know and I'll set it to digest w/ the longest digest period possible. :)

And thanks for setting this up. I've been a over-occupied with work & other tasks this week.

-Craig


---- Andrew Flegg <andrew@bleb.org> wrote:

=============
On 28 June 2012 23:15, Graham Cobb <g+770@cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2012 21:18:22 Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> This'd be a good test for people talking about community
>> infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
>> do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)
>
> No script needs to be written: off-the-shelf packages exist.  Personally I use
> rss2email.

Ah, cool. Thought it was likely to exist. And it looks trivial to use:

http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/#unix

> But it does need somewhere to run.

I've just installed it on bleb.org and done:

$ r2e new testemail@bleb.org # This would be maemo-community@maemo.org
$ r2e add http://maemo.org/community/council/rss.xml
$ cat >.rss2email/config.py <<EOC
DEFAULT_FROM = 'council@maemo.org'
DATE_HEADER = 1
SMTP_SERVER = "localhost:25"
FORCE_FROM = 1
EOC
$ r2e run --no-send

Then put a cronjob in place for every 15 minutes to do 'r2e run'.
Seems to work perfectly.

I'm happy to set this going at maemo-community@maemo.org, if someone
on the council can subscribe council@maemo.org to the list.

Cheers,

Andrew

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On 29 June 2012 17:08, Craig Woodward <woody@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> Done.

Thanks.

> I've registered and set the delivery to disabled for now, since
> we're all already on the list and don't need duplicates of all the
> mail (even in a digest form) if avoidable.  If that will block
> incoming mail, let me know and I'll set it to digest w/ the longest
> digest period possible. :)

It should be fine; being set up to receive shouldn't stop you from posting.

> And thanks for setting this up.  I've been a over-occupied with work &
> other tasks this week.

No probs.

Cheers,

Andrew

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On Thursday 28 June 2012 23:22:32 claude bucher wrote:
> for crying out loud, you are arguing about the sex of angels and meanwhile
> the castle is going down in flames :mad:

I think I have made my suggestions for the future of Maemo clear on both this
list and on TMO, but I am happy to re-iterate them if you are interested. I
await news from the council on what they are proposing with great interest.

Meanwhile, I see no reason not to help Andrew out with a software
recommendation.

Graham