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A changelog RSS feed that works in every reader: a field-by-field checklist
What RSS 2.0 and its best practices profile require of a changelog feed, field by field, and the mistakes that show entries twice or as one run-on paragraph.
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Notes from building a tracker with a public side
Feature requests, public roadmaps, changelogs and planning across projects, worked through with sources you can check.
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Emailing voters when a feature ships: unsubscribe, link scanners and sending once
Who should get the shipped email, what RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe requires, why the unsubscribe link must not act on GET, and how to avoid sending twice.
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Should search engines index your feature request board?
A page-by-page indexing policy for public request boards, roadmaps and changelogs, built from Google's documentation, with the defaults that hide or leak pages.
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Comparing progress across projects that name their workflow states differently
Map every workflow state to one of five categories so WIP, throughput and cycle time compare across projects. A worked example, plus the edge cases.