[csw-maintainers] Current state of pkg feed? Integration into our front page?

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Maciej (Matchek) Blizi??ski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 2011/10/25 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
> > Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Tue Oct 25 09:19:45 -0400 2011:
> >
> >> I have also seen that as a problem that it's up to the client to limit
> >> the scope you see. Since there's no interest in, let's say, more than
> >> a month back  (or even just a week) it would be nice if the process
> >> generating the feed truncated it. Simpler clients that can't set the
> >> scope would be much fasten then.
> >
> > Ok, I'll curtail this.  Is everyone happy with a 1 week interval or is
> > a month preferable?  In the current implementation, there is no
> > culling at all. :)
> 
> I'd say a month rather than a week. The feed should still be reasonable in size.

Just for the fun of it. Feed item size for recent items on the unstable
feed is mostly in the 400 - 450 Bytes range [1]. Judging from our
packages statistics [2] we have roughly 150 packages updates per month
on average. Thus: 450 Bytes * 150 = ~70 KBytes. More than 400KB down
from the current 500KB. Sounds good to me.

Except when something like around early October happens (looks like a
backlog of processed packages). Then, curtailing based on feed item
count might make more sense to control the feed size.

Sebastian

[1] http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/~skayser/feeditemsize-feed.mirror.opencsw.org.opencsw.unstable.SunOS5.10.i386.atom.xml.png
[2] http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/package-statistics/