[Toolserver-l] Dump-Mail-Service

[Platonides]

Stefan Kühn wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> At the moment I and some other users of the dumps show every 
> day/week/month at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ for a new dump. I use the 
> dump of 10 different languages for my projects (Wikipedia-World, 
> Template-Tiger, Persondata), so it is really work.
> 
> I hope someone at this list can program a simple to use 
> "Dump-Mail-Service". Maybe you have time, please do it! :-)


Wouldn't be preferably to have a daemon on the toolserver downloading 
each new dump (or dumps marked as "someone is interested") ?
It would then place them on a common folder for any toolserver user.

When a new dump is out, it could send email alerts (your proposal), 
start "cron" jobs...
Apart of that, your tools could at any time check if there's a dump file 
newer than your last definition.

PS: You know you can subscribe to RSS feeds for the xml dumps, do you?