RE: [checkstyle] First try at generating a RSS feed - Feedback wanted

[Jerome Lacoste <je...@coffeebreaks.org>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:18, Vincent Massol wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brett Porter [mailto:brett@apache.org]
> > Sent: mardi 29 juin 2004 07:53
> > To: Maven Developers List
> > Subject: Re: [checkstyle] First try at generating a RSS feed - Feedback
> > wanted
> > 
> > I'll take a look.
> > 
> > Is this generic enough to be used in other reports and the dashboard?
> > 
> > I find checkstyle useless personally, but an RSS of changes.xml, junit,
> > cactus
> > and others would be really nice...
> 
> You're right. That's exactly the goal (to generalize the use of RSS feeds
> for all reports). I've picked one at random to start with and it happened to
> be checkstyle (it's kinda useful for us because we have lots of errors that
> are put as warnings and we would like to monitor the trend).
> 
> Changes.xml is next on my list.
> 
> It's not completely generic but the code is quite simple. I'm not yet sure
> it warrants putting the common logic in a rss plugin yet. I think we need to
> implement a few like this and then refactor if required

I was just wondering how something like that could be refactored. 
Most of the logic is in the jelly style sheet that outputs the rss
field. But that logic is tied to the input file format. Extracting it
sounds hard to me.

Jerome



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