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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, FWIW I think that using atom/rss as the basic change detection
mechanism for clients is a good idea, it lets folk that want to poll,
poll using bog standard tools like google reader; pubsubhubbub as an
optimisation on top of that would be very nice, and both of these
things are very generic and extensible, so it wouldn't appear to limit
us in any meaningful way, and should play nice with API's too.

Building something completely custom would seem like an NIH approach,
and I'd be very interested in why doing that would be worth it.

Oh, and there rabbitMQ of course, which we have deployed in the
datacentre already and can do similar things to pubsubhubbub in terms
of event handling, but its quite a bit more work to work with it from
what I can tell.

-Rob