In response to my recent post about CVS Commit Notifications via E-mail, Jason Gessner writes to say that he's done something even cooler. He's rigged up a way to get CVS Commit info posted to a weblog using Net::Blogger (which I've played with before (here, here, and here) too and use to post 95% of my entries from Emacs now).
He demonstrated it at Chicago.pm (PDF) and has an example on-line.
Cool stuff.
That reminds me, in a roundabout way, of the RSS feeds of CVS Commits that I setup at work. It's more popular than I expected it'd be. There are people other than me who use it...
Posted by jzawodn at November 18, 2003 09:44 PM
And the obligatory "that's not new, we've been doing that for ages" whine from a certain Mr Brad Fitzpatrick:
Kev,
Yeah, I'm a whiner.
But you gotta admit that anything related to blogging is a little overhyped.
Sounds an awful lot like like cvsweb without the features.
Mendel,
cvsweb is per-file, not per-commit. (at least the example you linked to is.... is there a fancier version out now?)
I suppose a subversion-cvsweb (svnweb?) would make the whole changeblog thing more irrelevant, since svn has native changeset support.
- Brad
not sure if the changeblog is "cool" but it can certainly be useful. The nice thing about using a publishing system like Movable Type or LiveJournal is all of the other stuff it is built to hook into, not simply that it is available on a web page. Stuff like RSS, notifications, comments, etc make for some useful functionality and lots of easy flexibility. Plus, have you ever tried to make a nice looking cvsweb or viewcvs site? Ick. Or painful. one of the two. Btw, i like the commands for diffs on your change(b)logs.
Sorry to offend your sense of pride, Brad, but I don't recall saying, "For the first time ever!" or "Introducing!". Blogs are not new. The tools for them are getting better and becoming more useful for less work, but hardly new.
