From f0e447977988ba5c8f93031c5fa8a1323e2c01ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Sampson Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:40:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add one-paragraph description. --- NEWS | 3 +++ README | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c7b64e..a7a52d9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ - rawdog 2.17 +Add a one-paragraph description of rawdog to the README file, for use by +packgers. + Fix some misquoted dashes in the man page (spotted by lintian). Set LC_ALL=C and TZ=UTC when running tests, in order to get predictable diff --git a/README b/README index 00cb37c..d3f9f17 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ rawdog: RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur Adam Sampson -rawdog is an extensible feed aggregator for Unix-like systems, based on -the Python feedparser module (originally developed by Mark Pilgrim). +rawdog is a feed aggregator. It supports most common feed formats, +including all versions of RSS and Atom using feedparser. It runs from +cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static +HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports +per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, gzip +compression, and RFC3229+feed to minimize network bandwidth usage. Its +behaviour is highly customisable using plugins written in Python. rawdog has the following dependencies: -- 2.35.1