Releases RSS feed

[jamic]

Hey guys!

I was wondering wether anyone would be interested in an automated RSS feed of ubuntu releases.

As you might or might not know, with an RSS feed of releases you can make download programs, such as bittorrent, automaticly download the linked files. In this case it means you would always have an ISO of the latest ubuntu (or one of the flavours') release downloaded.

A proof of concept has already been made; if there is interest I will actively develop and publish a system like this.

[PaulW2U]

I was wondering wether anyone would be interested in an automated RSS feed of ubuntu releases.

As you might or might not know, with an RSS feed of releases you can make download programs, such as bittorrent, automaticly download the linked files. In this case it means you would always have an ISO of the latest ubuntu (or one of the flavours') release downloaded.
I already download from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ what I require each day.

http://releases.ubuntu.com/ gives me what has officially been released.


A proof of concept has already been made; if there is interest I will actively develop and publish a system like this.
Please expand on what you can offer the Ubuntu community that is better than what is already available via the forums and the long establshed Ubuntu mailing lists (https://lists.ubuntu.com/).

[ian-weisser]

with an RSS feed of releases you can make download programs, such as bittorrent, automaticly download the linked files.

You can also get the same information by scraping https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases twice a year.
And Software Updater will tell you, too.
So will the shell: 'do-release-upgrade -c'

This seems like an excellent way to DDOS the Ubuntu servers twice each year.
So if you build a download-bot, please be kind and bake in a delay of a couple days.
If you build a torrent-bot, please be kind and and bake in an appropriate delay so swarm members with higher upload capacity can join first.