What do we want feeds for? Initially:

• Search cards (pretty much gets Recent Changes)

Eventually:

• The watchlist (see implement notification system)
• Individual pages' Changes
• Pointers?
• ??

Helpful references/tools:
Atom - http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/
RSS - http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
convert RSS to Atom - http://atom.geekhood.net/
http://feedvalidator.org/ (works for RSS and Atom)

Feed autodiscovery - best practice is probably to only put in one (Atom or RSS). See http://philringnalda.com/rfc/draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.html

 

Ruby tools for RSS & Atom:

http://sporkmonger.com/projects/feedtools

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/resource_feeder