[svlug] recommend me a software package to display image/status

[Will Ashford]

I once had to display a list of recent commits for a project. I
decided to use an RSS reader plugin for the project's existing
mediawiki installation that pointed to the RSS feed of the Mercurial
repository we were using. I'm sure Subversion has some RSS
capabilities in some way or another and you could easily add some
parsing logic to load pictures based on submitter's name.

The plugin I used for mediawiki was a wrapper around Magpie RSS, a PHP
library. If you're adding python logic anyway you might as well use a
python RSS library.

Will



On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Johann Hasselbach <jhass88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> $BOSS has asked us to write a program that will be displayed on one or more
> widescreen monitors throughout the office, to be seen by developers, systems
> staff, and the occasional visitor.
>
> A variety of stuff is to be displayed:
>
> subversion commit messages (with maybe a picture of the committer)
> cacti/Nagios graphs
> the latest user-submitted data to our website -- kind of like what Google
> does with their scrolling list of queries in their HQ reception/foyer area
>
> I have the following goals for this project:
>
> since it is only going to be used in-house, it must be developed as quickly
> as possible (of course, it will be forever tweaked as time goes on) so as
> not to detract from production tasks
> it must look somewhat pretty
> it must run on a Ubuntu box with 100% FOSS software.
>
> Right now, I'm planning on getting something quick and dirty demo running by
> generating PNG images with a Python script that uses the Cairo library and
> then displaying those pictures in full-screen mode with an image program.
>
> If anyone's got a better suggestion, or if someone's written a package to do
> this, I'd love to hear it.
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