== Wanted: RSS feeds for vendor software updates

Vendors, I have a simple request for you: ~~give me an RSS feed for
your security fixes and system updates~~. No, please don't suggest that
I subscribe to your email announcement list, because these days email
is just too much of a hassle. Accept it; RSS is the new lightweight
notification format, and notification of new updates is *just* what I
want.

And don't just give us one global RSS feed of everything. Be modern; let
people get narrow feeds as well as broad ones. Easier yet, tag all of
your updates and let people subscribe to tags and combinations of tags.

=== Existing feeds

[[Debian Security http://security.debian.org/]] has a feed for Debian
security updates. The version that includes the first paragraph,
so you can see some details about each issue, is [[here
http://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long]] [RSS feed].

Fedora Core doesn't have an explicit feed, but we can fake it by
getting an RSS feed of the Fedora announcements list from [[gmane.org
http://www.gmane.org/]]. The 'full text of all messages' version is
[[here
http://rss.gmane.org/messages/complete/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.core.announce]]
[RSS feed]. The Fedora announcements list isn't just package updates,
but it's close enough for my purposes.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has an announcements mailing list too,
and thus a similar feed [[here
http://rss.gmane.org/messages/complete/gmane.linux.redhat.enterprise.announce]]
[RSS feed].

Note that you can use [[gmane.org]] this way for any project that has
a reasonably non-noisy announcements mailing list (if [[gmane.org]]
doesn't already carry it, you can ask them to subscribe). Go wild.

([[gmane.org]] is quite cool and worth a look in general; I wrote
about it before in [[blog/GmanePointer]].)