[doap-interest] doap rss feeds and change information

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi everyone,

Now that I'm using my moap tool to generate rss and ical feeds for my
project releases, there is one thing that is obviously lacking.

If you take a look at http://thomas.apestaart.org/moap/releases.rss2
(generated from the DOAP file), as a news feed it is severely lacking in
news.

moap also allows me to submit to freshmeat, and again I can't add actual
news this way.

I think it would be good for DOAP to also centralize the important
features in a release, so that:
- rss and ical feeds lists why a release was made, and what it brings to
users
- submitting to freshmeat contains this same info
- NEWS files and release announcements can contain this information.

A while back there was a discussion about ChangeLog from DOAP.  That
discussion got sidetracked IMO because the original poster wrote
"ChangeLog" and used it in a different meaning than what is usually the
ChangeLog.

IMO, the ChangeLog is a much more granular level that doesn't match DOAP
- listing every functional change, and changes in source code.  However,
being able to give a list of high-level user-visible changes for every
release would fit DOAP well I think.

I am just a newbie anyway when it comes to RDF and semantic webs.  Edd,
do you think something like this is in the scope of DOAP or not ? If
not, how does one go about extending or adding a new ontology to make
this possible ?

Thanks
Thomas