I was a bit annoyed the other day that some of the Subversion repositories out there don’t have a way to send a notification to interested parties when a new change is made. There are a few other services on the web that claim to do this but when I went looking I didn’t have much luck using any of them. Since I am not one to shrink from a challenge that can’t be solved by a little bit of coding I threw a new Subversion feed service together in a couple of hours. About a quarter of that was spent trying to get the CSS on the homepage right.
If it gets any use at all (besides me) I might add some additional features to track which projects are being watched the most and other interesting features of the repositories. If you have any great ideas you can hand them over to me in the comments 
Devon Hillard wrote,
That’s super handy!!! Thank you very much!
| Link | September 11th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Walt wrote,
Is this tool open sourced? I’d be interested in using this internally here at work for my s/w project.
| Link | September 16th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Sam wrote,
It’s a great little tool - good work! A couple of suggestions:
* Have an option to include the diff in the RSS feed itself. This would be more server-intensive for the SVN server, so you’d wanna ensure that your caching is up to snuff.
* Make the display of the diffs at http://svnfeed.com/svn2rss/diff a little more user friendly. For example, this is how Trac does it: http://open.silverstripe.com/changeset/62484
| Link | September 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm