0004401: RSS feed for new bugs and bugnotes - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0004401	mantisbt	rss	public	2004-08-26 02:49	2009-07-20 17:15

Reporter	slave	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open

Summary	0004401: RSS feed for new bugs and bugnotes
Description	It would be great if there were different rss feed for new bugs and bugnotes. Current news_rss is usable for casual observer, but bit more interested users would benefit from new bugs -feed. Feed would be even better, if you could configure whether you want to be notified of new bugs or also changes in old bugs.
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vboctor 2005-04-24 09:27 manager ~0009888	See 0005502 which implements a news feed for issues. I am planning to implement another news feed for comments.

hacker 2006-05-12 16:01 reporter ~0012823	I spend some time hacking on this a bit today (after cursing at how complicated the codebase has become, lots of spaghetti in there).. and came up with what I think is a workable solution: In the view_all_bugs page, add a column for rss feeds for each bug, much like there's an "Edit" column right now. If a bug has its own feed enabled, clicking on it will allow you to see the rss representation of that bug, with bugnotes as sub-items of that feed, and any attachments as enclosures for that feed. (see rss "enclosures" for more info, this is how mp3s are delivered via feeds). The ability to disable the feed should be a preferefence in the bug metadata, enabled by default, but disabled when necessary. Closed or resolved bugs should automatically have their feeds disabled. Also, the view_all_bug_page should have the following at the top headers: <link rel="alternate" href="..." title="..." type="application/rss+xml"/>, so you can create a feed for each of the bugs from the Firefox/Mozilla/Safari URL bar by clicking on the icon and selecting your bug by title in the dropdown. Also, if you enter a bug directly, and are in the view_simple or view_advanced page, THAT page should have its own link header for THAT bug, so you can monitor it directly if you happen to have been brought to the bug page directly via an email with the link to it. You can see how some of that would work, by visiting our bugtracker here: http://bugs.plkr.org/view_all_bug_page.php Its not completely hooked up yet, as you can see, but its close...

hacker 2006-05-12 16:33 reporter ~0012824	Update: Safari has some weirdness with it, but it works as expected in Firefox and Mozilla of course. I'll work it out.