From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-03-05T01:29:11+09:00 Subject: Re: RAA Status & b James Britt writes: >> I think ideally, this would be handled generally using some basic >> sort of publish-update mechanism. The DOAP project is well-suited >> for this, and in theory could be integrated with FOAF. Then you >> could release your lib wherever, and ping the right servers to go >> slurp your updated DOAP file, then people would have a lot of >> personal choice as to where they host their libs. > > This is an appealing idea. The fewer places a developer needs to go > to update information, the more reliable that information will be. > > I would be nice to have a Rake task that pulls together various bits > of information, assembles descriptor file, and pings some server to > indicate New Stuff. (Though I believe that RAA has or had a SOAP > interface, so something like this may be doable now.) +1. A generic project pinger would be very useful to register/update stuff at rubyforge/freshmeat etc. > James -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org