commitfeed

NAME

mkcommitfeed.pl - Commit Log Feed Generator

SYNOPSIS

  mkcommitfeed.pl \
    --file-name filename.atom \
    --feed-url http://example.com/myproject/filename.atom \
    --feed-title "MyProject Commit Log" \
    --feed-lang langtag \
    --feed-related-url "http://example.com/myproject/" \
    --feed-license-url "http://example.com/myproject/license" \
    --feed-rights "Copyright or copyleft statement" \
    < changes-in-this-revision.txt

DESCRIPTION

The mkcommitfeed.pl script provides a command-line interface to update an Atom Feed that is intended for providing commit logs for a software developmenet project.

The script, when invoked, adds an Atom Entry that describes a change made to the project's repository.

STANDARD INPUT

A description for the change must be specified to the standard input. It is used as the plain text content of the atom:content element of the Entry for the change to add.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script. Maybe a future version of this script would support UTF-8.

ARGUMENTS

There are command-line options for the script. Some of them are required, while the others are optional. As a general rule, an option whose name begins with --entry specifies a property for the Entry to add, while an option whose name begins with --feed specifies a property for the entire Feed. Option values for Feed properties might not be used when updating an existing Feed document.

--entry-author-mail foo@domain.example (optional)

Specifies the mail address of the person who made a change. It is used as the content of the atom:email element of the atom:author element of the Entry.

If this option is not specified, but the standard input includes a ChangeLog entry in the standard GNU format, then the mail address is taken from the ChangeLog entry. Otherwise, atom:email element is not specified.

The option value must be an RFC 2822 addr-spec that does not match obs-addr-spec (i.e. standard email address format). Otherwise the generated Feed would be non-conforming.

--entry-author-name author-name (conditionally required)

Specifies the human readable name of the person who made a change. It is used as the content of the atom:name element of the atom:author element of the Entry.

If this option is not specified, but the standard input includes a ChangeLog entry in the standard GNU format, then the name is taken from the ChangeLog entry. If the standard input does not include a GNU format ChangeLog entry, then the --entry-author-name option must be specified.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

--entry-content description (optional)

Specifies the description of the change. It is used as the content of the atom:content element of the Entry, with type=text.

If this option is specified, its value is used as if it were from the standard input and the actual standard input, if any, is ignored. If neither this option nor the standard input is specified, then the description is assumed as the empty string.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

--entry-title title (optional)

Specifies the title of the change. It is used as the content of the atom:title element of the Entry, with type=text.

If this option is not specified, then the date of the change, as well as the name of the author, is used as title.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

--feed-author-mail foo@domain.example (optional)

Specifies the mail address of the author of the Feed. It is used as the content of the atom:email element of the atom:author element of the Feed.

This option is ignored if the --feed-author-name option is not specified.

If this option is not specified, atom:email element is not specified.

The option value must be an RFC 2822 addr-spec that does not match obs-addr-spec (i.e. standard email address format). Otherwise the generated Feed would be non-conforming.

This option is ignored if the Feed already has an atom:author element.

--feed-author-name author-name (optional)

Specifies the human readable name of the author of the Feed. It is used as the content of the atom:name element of the atom:author element of the Feed.

If this option is not specified, the atom:author element is not specified in the Feed.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

This option is ignored if the Feed already has an atom:author element.

--feed-author-url url (optional)

Specifies the URI for the author (e.g. URL of the Web page for the author). It is used as the content of the atom:uri element of the atom:author element of the Feed.

If the --feed-author-name option is not specified, this option is ignored.

If this option is not specified, the atom:uri element is not specified.

The option value must be a URI reference conforming to RFC 3986. It should be an absolute reference unless you understand what is the base URL that is used to resolve a relative reference. Non-ASCII characters (i.e. IRI references) are not supported in this version of this script.

This option is ignored if the Feed already has an atom:author element.

--feed-lang langtag (optional)

Specifies the natural language used in textual parts of the Feed. It is used as the value of xml:lang attribute of the root element of the Feed.

If this option is not specified, the default value i-default is used.

This option is ignored if the Feed already exists and has a atom:link element.

--feed-license-url url (optional)

Specifies the URL that describes the license of the Feed. It is used as the href attribute value of an atom:link element whose rel is license.

If this option is not specified, the atom:link element whose rel is license is not specified.

The option value must be a URI reference conforming to RFC 3986. It should be an absolute reference unless you understand what is the base URL that is used to resolve a relative reference. Non-ASCII characters (i.e. IRI references) are not supported in this version of this script.

This option is ignored if the Feed already has a atom:link element.

--feed-related-url url (optional)

Specifies a related URL for the Feed. Usually the URL for the project Web page should be specified. It is used as the href attribute value of an atom:link element whose rel is related.

If this option is not specified, the atom:link element whose rel is related is not specified.

The option value must be a URI reference conforming to RFC 3986. It should be an absolute reference unless you understand what is the base URL that is used to resolve a relative reference. Non-ASCII characters (i.e. IRI references) are not supported in this version of this script.

This option is ignored if the Feed already has a atom:link element.

--feed-rights license-terms (optional)

Specifies the license terms for the Feed. It is used as the content of the atom:rights element of the Feed.

If there is the atom:rights element exists, its value is replaced by the value of this option.

If this option is not specified, the atom:rights element is not added. If there are already the atom:rights element specified, however, it is not removed from the Feed.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

--feed-title title (optional)

Specifies the title of the Feed. It is used as the content of the atom:title of the Feed.

If this option is not specified, the default value "ChangeLog" is used.

If there is Feed exists, then this option is ignored.

Non-ASCII characters are not supported in this version of this script.

--feed-url url (required)

Specifies the URL of the Feed itself. It is used in various places, such as in the href attribute of the atom:link element whose rel is self.

The option value must be a URI reference conforming to RFC 3986. It should be an absolute reference unless you understand what is the base URL that is used to resolve a relative reference. Non-ASCII characters (i.e. IRI references) are not supported in this version of this script.

--file-name path-to-atom-file (required)

Specifies the path to the file that contains the Atom Feed.

If the specified file is not found, then a new file is created. Otherwise, the existing file is loaded as an Atom Feed and then it is updated.

The file, if exists, must be encoded in UTF-8. The new content of the file generated by this script is encoded in UTF-8.

--help

Shows a help message and aborts.

DEPENDENCY

For the execution of mkcommitfeed.pl, the libiraries below are required, as well as Perl 5.10.0 or later:

manakai-core <https://suika.suikawiki.org/www/manakai-core/doc/web/>.

Whatpm <https://suika.suikawiki.org/www/markup/html/whatpm/readme>.

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this script is available in the Git repository: <https://suika.suikawiki.org/gate/git/wi/vc/cvscommitfeed.git/tree>.

SEE ALSO

The mkcommitfeed.pl Web site https://suika.suikawiki.org/commitfeed/readme.

AUTHOR

Wakaba <wakaba@suikawiki.org>.

HISTORY

This module was originally developed as part of Whatpm https://suika.suikawiki.org/www/markup/html/whatpm/readme.

An out-of-date Atom Feed for updates of this script, which was itself generated by this script, is available at https://suika.suikawiki.org/commitfeed/commitfeed-commit.

The script is no longer maintained as of 2012. This script is considered obsolete, as Web interfaces for modern version management systems tend to have their own feeds.

LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2012 Wakaba <wakaba@suikawiki.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.