feature request : author newsfeed mashup

[mattp-]

A newsfeed mashup of github, twitter activity for authors, and cpan as a whole would add a lot to the social aspect of the site.

[szabgab]

It would be nice if this could collect the various XP (experience points) and badges and whatnot of the people from the sites they are using thereby providing a central place for competition and maybe even for employers to check the experience level of the person.

[mattp-]

https://github.com/christianv/jquery-lifestream accomplishes this task very nicely. Forking and adding functionality for cpan activity would allow lifestream to handle both main page feed and per author pages.

[dolmen]

@szabgab: you should submit this as a different issue. I don't see how badges would appear in an RSS/Atom feed. However badges would be appropriate on the author page. I think that hosting Google Gadgets on the author page would be the solution.

@mphill22: jquery-lifestream is great, and as it is done one the client side there would be no load on the MetaCPAN server.

[oalders]

This has been moved to the wishlist https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/Wishlist