ginatrapani/ThinkUp — Issue #1261: Display more meaningful crawl status information in RSS feed items
Author: ginatrapani
Created: 2012-03-01 17:36:14+00:00
State: open

Problem:
ThinkUp's crawler RSS feed items only show when the crawl started and completed, but not what happened during it.

Solution:
After a crawl runs in the background, ThinkUp should store a brief but meaningful summary of what happened during it for each service. Something like "Updated ginatrapani on Twitter; captured 100 new posts, links, friends, etc" Perhaps one line per service user or plugin. Then, it should include this summary in the RSS feed items.

Because the crawl forks off the RSS request, each item can only show the summary from the previous crawl, but that's okay.