[maemo-community] Community annoucements

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 28 June 2012 23:15, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2012 21:18:22 Andrew Flegg wrote:
>> This'd be a good test for people talking about community
>> infrastructure. If they can't write a Perl/Python/Ruby/... script to
>> do this in less than an hour, they're not qualified to be involved ;-)
>
> No script needs to be written: off-the-shelf packages exist.  Personally I use
> rss2email.

Ah, cool. Thought it was likely to exist. And it looks trivial to use:

    http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/getting-started-with-rss2email/#unix

> But it does need somewhere to run.

I've just installed it on bleb.org and done:

   $ r2e new testemail at bleb.org # This would be maemo-community at maemo.org
   $ r2e add http://maemo.org/community/council/rss.xml
   $ cat >.rss2email/config.py <<EOC
DEFAULT_FROM = 'council at maemo.org'
DATE_HEADER = 1
SMTP_SERVER = "localhost:25"
FORCE_FROM = 1
EOC
   $ r2e run --no-send

Then put a cronjob in place for every 15 minutes to do 'r2e run'.
Seems to work perfectly.

I'm happy to set this going at maemo-community at maemo.org, if someone
on the council can subscribe council at maemo.org to the list.

Cheers,

Andrew

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