About one week ago, Aaron Brady posted a svnstatus.py script which
displays an SVN repository version history in an HTML document. I
liked it and wanted to use it as a post-commit hook script for the
XMLObject_ SVN repository. But svnstatus is not optimal at all. If you
want to periodically build a static HTML file it's ok. The problem, if
you want to use it in post-commit hook is that it rebuilds the file
for each commit, which turns to be really CPU hungry. 

That's why i wrote SubveRSSed.py_. SubveRSSed incrementally builds an
RSS feed containing the commit history of a SVN Repository. Then an
HTML document is built based upon the RSS feed. This approach has many
advantages:

- post-commit hook friendly :)
- the RSS can be made available for aggregators and people can monitor
  the activity/vitality of a repository
- the history can still be consulted via the HTML document, if you
  don't like aggregators nor RSS ;) 

But there is one issue thought, the RSS accumulates all revisions, so it can grow enormously. I think i'll make 2 feeds, one complete and one with the 20 latest revisions .. So SubverRSSed will evolve, may be in the PythonFR_ SVN repository :-)

BTW, many thanks to Aaron for svnstatus from which SubveRSSed used
some functions and embedded CSS.

**update**: the script now handles 2 RSS feeds as described above :)

**update2** :  check out SubveRSSed at this url_

**update3(2005/05/05)** : There's a more recent post_ about this script.

.. _post: http://base-art.net/Articles/46/
.. _XMLObject: http://xmlobject.base-art.net
.. _SubveRSSed.py: http://svn.pythonfr.org/public/pythonfr/utils/subversion/subverssed.py
.. _PythonFR: http://svn.pythonfr.org/
.. _url: http://svn.pythonfr.org/public/pythonfr/utils/subversion/subverssed.py