Install RSS feed aggregator on kabanero.io

[bschrammIBM]

Feature description

Need an RSS feed aggregator on kabanero.io so the we can syndicate blogs from RSS feeds such as https://medium.com/appsody and https://knative.dev/blog/ , (others)

Feature design or visual mockup

There is a large selection of GNU licensed aggregators. For example, http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/
Planet Venus is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.

Additional context

Syndication will increase blog readership and make it easy to find the appsody tutorials and other open source blogs.

[GkhnYlmz]

Hello Team,
I want to make contribution for this task.
Can you assign me also and communicate with each other?
Thanks.
Gokhan

[alohr51]

Hi @GkhnYlmz thanks for the interest! Let's talk here about how you want to go about this. What kind of ideas do you see in the finished product?

@bschrammIBM maybe you can help with what you expect too, we already have a "feed" on https://kabanero.io/blog/ and having 2 separate feeds might be confusing to a user.

What we can do is post third party blogs on /blog page like we already did for the "Introduction to Appsody" blog. That wouldn't require any code change for the website and is a manual process for the blog repository.

[bschrammIBM]

Hi, do the re-posted blogs update automatically? (meaning when a new blog is posted for appsody on https://medium.com/appsody, is it automatically available on kabanero.io/blogs?)
The idea for an RSS feed is that we can provide a seamless experience for people when reading the various blogs. We can syndicate from medium easily, and potentially other open source blogs as well. Attached is a proposal that covers both kabanero.io and developer.ibm.com(which is under discussion with that team).
blog_syndication_proposal_CP4Apps.pptx

[bschrammIBM]

@alohr51 Can you clarify "we already have a "feed" on https://kabanero.io/blog/ and having 2 separate feeds might be confusing to a user." Do you mean that https://kabanero.io/blog/ is an RSS feed? That allows the blog to be aggregated by other sites. What I am proposing is that kabanero.io/blog will aggregate other feeds, such as medium/appsody and any other blogs we want.

[alohr51]

@bschrammIBM the /blogs section is correlated to the blogs repo so they are manual additions when we add them to the repo.

We can pull in other blogs via RSS (appsody for example) but they would be mostly blogs about the specific pieces of Kabanero instead of blogs about how those pieces fit into Kabanero, which can be confusing since you're on the Kabanero website.

[bschrammIBM]

Well let's discuss. I think the Appsoday, tekton and knative blogs would be appropriate for the kabanero website. Definitely appsody. There are too many locations for blogs from which to get info. We need to consolidate the content. We can filter them so they are only appropriate entries. Manual updates is not extensible going forward. It will help build community.

[alohr51]

We decided not to follow up on adding blogs from other sources since most do not mention Kabanero. it would be confusing to go from Kabanero website to a blog that doesn't mention Kabanero (even if the tool is a part of Kabanero)

If there is a good blog post we can add a direct link to it on our blogs page, see intro to appsody example redirect in our blog repo

[bschrammIBM]

@alohr51 I discussed this with Garth, Nate, and Diana. They want to explore the syndication proposal further. Please re-open this issue and we will add it to an Epic.

[bschrammIBM]

blog_syndication_proposal_Kabanero.pptx