Subversion UK User Group / Google open source jam writeup

Last Thursday (the 18th) I attended two open source events in London. The first was the third Subversion UK User Group meeting, and the second was Google’s second Open Source Jam.

Planet Subversion updates

I’ve given Planet Subversion a facelift, and decided to splash the cash on a domain for it too — planet-subversion.com. I’ve also recently added (but neglected to mention here) a feed from Mark Phippard, who has been writing some very interesting articles about the Subclipse project.

use.perl journals and full text feeds

One of the sites I make a point of reading regularly is use.perl, and in particular, the user journals / blogs. They don’t take too long to read, and there’s normally a couple of posts a day that teach me something I didn’t know about Perl, or that highlight a new module that’s doing something useful.

But there’s a problem.

Planet Subversion

I’ve been experimenting with Plagger, a tool for plugging together chains of filters, pumping RSS/ATOM feeds in one end, and getting transformed output at the other end.

This doesn’t have to be as simple as chaining a few XSLT transformations together, as Plagger filters can carry out additional actions (such as e-mailing the results to you, calling on the power of Perl modules to create summaries, and so on).

As a learning exercise, I’ve built Planet Subversion (edit I’ve updated the URL to point to the official domain). This takes feeds from a number of different sources and builds a "Planet" site from them. And, of course, with Plagger being open source, it’s easy to contribute any fixes back to the author.

Please let me know if you use Subversion and can recommend any other feeds to add.

If you’d like to produce your own aggregation site using Plagger, here’s the config file that I’m using for Planet Subversion.