2009/7/6 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.com.ve>:
The first solution seems better to me (but both solutions can be implemented), why the first solution is better to me?, Well in the case when a guy with several packages decided to orphan all his packages the users who have an rss client pointing to the "orphan rss" will get flooded heh.. but it's the risk that they took in any case.
You're probably right... not because of flooding, though, but because of RSS limits: if the RSS feeds shows 20 packages and somebody orphans 30, 10 will invariably be "lost", and it defeats the purpose. Anyway, if someone follows an RSS feed, s/he should be prepared to see a lot of entries. After all, it can't be bigger than the new package feed we already have. If it is, we have a problem, and it's not the one we thought it was =) Or is it possible to give an RSS a "time limit", which shows entries for the last X days regardless from the number? Anyway, I'm still for both, strongly for the first one, a little less on the second one, but I still think it's valid. Corrado