planet.bluesabre.org

Feed aggregator for Xfce and Xubuntu releases. Powered by:

• Kasper
• Jekyll
• Planet Pluto
• mailman-rss for processing xfce-announce

Updated frequently at planet.bluesabre.org

Adding Your Blog

1. Add your feed details to planet.ini.
2. If you want your feed to only show an excerpt (for rendering or other purposes), add your blog title to ~line 62 of planet.rb.

if ['Sean Davis', 'My Blog Title'].include? item.feed.title
  frontmatter['excerpt_only'] = false
else
  frontmatter['excerpt_only'] = false
end

Included Goodies

• fetch-ubuntu-package.py pulls the latest ubuntu changelogs for a list of packages, and parses them into Markdown
• fetch-xfce-announce.py uses mailman-rss to pull Xfce release announcements, then cleans them up and converts them into Markdown

Installation

# Jekyll dependencies
git clone https://github.com/bluesabre/planet.bluesabre.org
cd planet.bluesabre.org
gem install jekyll bundler
gem install jekyll-paginate

# Pluto dependencies
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
gem install pluto

# Processing xfce-announce
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-lxml
pip3 install mailman-rss

# Correcting GitHub release dates
sudo apt install sqlite3

Configuration

Planet Pluto Configuration

Add additional sources to planet.ini.

title = Planet Ruby

[rubylang]
    title = Ruby Lang News
    link  = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news
    feed  = http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss

Use the pluto command line tool and pass in the planet configuration.

pluto update planet.ini

This will

1. fetch all feeds listed in planet.ini and

2. store all entries in a local database, that is, planet.db in your working folder.

Generate Planet Posts

Use the planet.rb script to generate the blog posts for your static website.

ruby ./planet.rb

This will

1. fetch the latest entries from the local database, that is, planet.db and

2. generate a blog story for every entry in _posts/

Build and Serve

Build page and start local web server

jekyll serve

Build page into _site folder

jekyll build

Copyright & License

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.