Re: [libreoffice-website] Keeping track of changes in global website

Hi Takashi,

Am 06.06.2011 16:25, schrieb Takashi Nakamoto:
> (2011/06/06 1:36), Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Erich Christian<erich_tdf@irq.at> 
> > wrote:
> > > Am 05.06.2011 05:14, schrieb Takashi Nakamoto:
> > >
> > > > I personally think that if we can get diffs by mails, it will be easier
> > > > to maintain local sites. If there's already an effective method to
> > > > follow the changes in the global site, please let me know.
> > >
> > > Silverstripe provides this feature.
> >
> > It has RSS capabilities, but unfortunately the one provided by the
> > cmsworflow module uses http-auth, but that doesn't work with the fcgid
> > module we're using.
> >
> > Siverstipe sitll would make it easy to create an own custom feed, but
> > nobody did jump in and wrote it so far (see
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/website@libreoffice.org/msg04131.html )
> > I myself always pushed it back to have time for "more important" stuff
> > (or also to have some time to relay :-)
>
> It would be fine if it is capable to notify only diffs. I'm sorry for
> raising the previous topic, but maybe I can help in technical stuff.
> As I found DataDifferencer class in the API doc, I believe it wouldn't
> be so hard to implement.
>
> > > Easiest would be, you (or/and others) claim an account for the
> > > international pages and all the changes are going to be mailed to you
> > > providing a link to the respective page(s).
> >
> > This however is a different method - while that wold work, it is
> > probably not what the question was about :-))
>
> I also thought this could be a good way. But, as Alexandro pointed out,
> the problem is that each person has to get an account of the global
> site, which I think is nasty especially for the administrator of the site.
>
> BTW, if SilverStripe is capable of sending mails to admins, it wouldn't
> be not very hard to make them send to public. What if we register a mail
> alias as an administrator account just to receive diffs mails? This
> seems the easiest way, although this is what I just come up with because
> I personally don't use any RSS feed reader on daily basis and I still
> want to stick on mail notification.

Just provide an email address in case you want to test it, we could go
for a technically more sophisticated solution if it does not work as
expected.

Cheers
Erich

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