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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:33:32 Martin Pool wrote:
> On 4 June 2010 14:19, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586395
> > 
> > I think instead of having a lot of different specific RSS feeds, we
> > probably want to invest into a proper event notification system.
> > Perhaps pubsubhubbub or similar.
> 
> I don't understand why people keep saying this.  As far as I can tell
> pubsub just gives you much faster and more efficient updates when an
> atom or rss feed changes.  You can still only subscribe to things at
> the level of granularity of the underlying feeds.  (No?)

What I was trying to say on the bug was that we should look into a general 
event notification system to notify external systems of internal events.

I'd love to hear ideas of what we could use or do.

Tim