New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
Report new NVDA versions via rss or other formats #172
Comments
Comment 1 by jteh on 2008-09-11 22:31 I'm open to discussion on this one, but I'm going to need some serious convincing. |
Comment 2 by ragb (in reply to comment 1) on 2008-09-12 13:26
For oficial releases I do think it will be really useful. Regarding snapshots... The fact is that most users that report information and participate in lists about NVDA are using snapshots, even 0.6p2 beeing a stable and recomended release, it seems they preffer new features from stability and our recomendations... I don't know how you are generating the snapshots page so can't expeculate about the technical dificulties of implementing something like a feed for these...
Ok... For oficial releases I think it will be really useful something that notifies the users about new versions. I can help if you want, I'll btry to be on IRC these days so we can talk about this. Regarding snapshots, I'll try to convince you, but I do know that is not a real priority...:) |
Comment 3 by aleksey_s on 2008-09-12 18:22 |
Comment 4 by ragb (in reply to comment 3) on 2008-09-12 18:48
Yes there is an RSS feed, but my idea is to get some kind of more automatic notification, so nVDA itself or possibly other sites or applications can notify the user and provide automaticly links to upgrade. Maby I was not clear explaining the idea... I thought about RSS but any other format (possibly simpler) would work. |
Comment 5 by tbd on 2008-09-12 19:11 |
Comment 6 by aleksey_s (in reply to comment 4) on 2008-09-13 07:00 |
Comment 7 by aleksey_s (in reply to comment 5) on 2008-09-13 07:08 |
Comment 8 by ragb (in reply to comment 6) on 2008-09-13 12:24
You're right, but for users that don't speak english the information is not so accessible. I'm saying this because in NVDA's portuguese list I and Diogo (the other portuguese translator) are constantly translating information to and from users... My suggestion was not really the automatic upgrade thing, but the automatic notification. If we provide notifications in an neutral language format it will be really easier at least for news translators! I'm not saying that we most provide translations of changelogs for exampple, that would be rather useless for most users (unhappyly most users that use snapshots don't even read them) but for links it could be done. That was just an idea, nothing NVDA must provide to keep it alive :). |
Comment 9 by ragb on 2008-09-13 12:32 |
Comment 10 by jteh on 2010-03-04 11:53
|
Comment 11 by ragb (in reply to comment 10) on 2010-03-05 01:23
I think so... you could provide a file like .last_snapshot for oficial releases with release name (like 2009.1 or something) but because there are fiew releases, for what I use, I can update it manually. |
Comment 12 by mdcurran on 2010-05-10 07:29 |
Comment 13 by jteh on 2010-05-10 10:30 |
Comment 14 by jteh on 2010-05-10 10:30 |
Comment 15 by Q on 2012-05-23 07:14 |
Reported by ragb on 2008-09-11 15:27
There are some sites providing links for downloading NVDA snapshots and stable versions, however, mainly in the case of snapshots links become obsulet very quickly.
My suggestion is to implement some kind of RSS/RDF feed, or other similar way, to report new versions to automatic systems. This can also be used to NVDA itself report new versions available to users.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: