* FeedTracker

http://code.google.com/p/feedtracker/

This is a very simple Trac plugin for pulling web feeds into the Trac
timeline. It can be useful if you use the Trac timeline as the central
hub for following activity on a project where some information can
come from external feeds (a project blog, for example).


* Requirements:

- Trac ( trac.edgewall.org ) - v0.9 or higher
- Universal Feed Parser ( feedparser.org )


* Installation:

1. Build the python egg and copy it to the plugins directory of your
Trac project

> cd feedtracker
> python setup.py bdist_egg
> cp dist/FeedTracker-0.01-py2.4.egg /var/trac/project/plugins/

2. Edit the Trac configuration file /var/trac/project/conf/trac.ini
adding a 'feeds' section with a nameN and urlN for each feed you want
to integrate. For example:

[feeds]
name1 = LShift Blog
url1 = http://www.lshift.net/blog/feed/
name2 = Tom's LJ
url2 = http://intellectronica.livejournal.com/data/rss


* Limitations:

- No caching! Every time you refresh the timeline FeedTracker will
  request your feeds again. If this is a high-traffic public feed,
  chances you will be sooner or later banned.

- Many others. This is just a little hack.


* Licensing:

FeedTracker is Free Software and comes with absolutely no
warranty. The following licence applies to all source code and
documentation:

(C) 2006 Tom Berger <tom.berger@gmail.com> ( http://intellectronica.net/ )
(C) 2006 LShift <query@lshift.net> ( http://www.lshift.net/ )

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