[PATCH] hgweb: adding branch, tags, bookmarks, and file list to atom feed entries

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 17:24 +0000, Jensen, Aaron wrote:
> > One big question: how sure can we be that no one relies on the old format?
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> In reality, we can't. Since the content section of atom is xhtml, it would be parseable by XML readers (for RSS, the content is HTML wrapped in a CDATA section, but there is nothing stopping someone from cracking it open and parsing it out), so there is a chance someone somewhere is grabbing feed XML, parsing it, and doing something with it. 
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> In practice, practice, though, I doubt anyone is doing this. The only useful information published in either RSS/Atom feeds was author and description. I don't think this was enough information to make it worth anyone's time to parse out. There are much better ways (hg log) of getting history from a repository. I wouldn't consider the output from an RSS/Atom feed an API that people can/should code against.
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> > Also, it seems the omission of author is pretty glaring. I know it's part of the Atom schema already, but I think lots of reader 
> > agents neglect it.
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> I use Feedbin as my Atom/RSS reader, and it seems to correctly display author information. Our repositories are internal, so developers that subscribe have to use an internal Atom/RSS reader, which is always Outlook.  It, too, shows author information from the feed. So, there's a sample of two from a pool of infinity.
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> Of course, adding it into the content wouldn't be hard at all. Should I make that change a submit an updated patch?

Please do.

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