Albert W. Hopkins to me More options Apr 14 (23 hours ago) On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:35 +0100, Kristof Gilleman wrote: > Hi, > > I visit packages.gentoo.org very frequently to check out the status & versions of packages. I was wondering why Gentoo doesn't launch an automatic e-mail alert service so users can be notified when the status of a package changes or when new packages are added. > This feature would not only be helpful for a lot of people that are awaiting new stuff, it could also be very helpful for Gentoo to know who is interested in what (could be managed via subscription on certain categories) and maybe even use this info for prioritisation of development for certain packages? Probably won't happen, but nevertheless please use bugs.gentoo.org for feature requests. thanks, -m
Why don't you use RSS feeds? *scratching my head*
*** Bug 144493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Why don't you use RSS feeds? *scratching my head* > Sorry if this is too redundant, but I'll repeat my rationale in bug 144493 for why RSS feed doesn't do the job: No RSS reader that I know of could handle the criteria matching. The point of having a criteria matching in the gentoo.org server end is that the end-user doesn't have to manually wade through the list of all new (say, x86 stable) packages everyday to see if the specific package he's interested in has been updated to specific version and/or state (stable/~x86/etc.). Also, in a company where we have several admins, if some of us would subscribe to feed, then the others would not know about new package coming available without extra communication. But we have a shared "maintenance" mailbox that every admin reads. If the mail about new packages would come there, then everyone would know about it instantly without any extra manual work needed.
The new packages.g.o site provides RSS feeds for _every_ arch, arch+keyword, category, package, plus a few other things. I suggest hooking it up to an RSS->email converter for where you want emails.
