[sword-devel] Monitoring the sources for our modules?

[David Haslam]

Has anyone given any thought to the ongoing monitoring of where we get the
text (& graphics) for our modules from?

Important considerations:

(a) conf files often contain a URL, but some of these are now broken links
(b) "suppliers" may issue revisions or updates, but we have no means of
knowing or being alerted

As a result, our repos can become easily outdated, even though they were
true and accurate at the time of module creation.

For general web-page monitoring, there are or were excellent services such
as  http://www.changedetection.com/ http://www.changedetection.com/ .  Is
this still live?

For finding broken links, we could use 
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Xenu's Linksleuth , but first
someone would have to generate a single page containing a table listing
every module in one column, and the "supplier" URL (from the conf files) in
another.  Making one would be a simple task for a scripting techie. 

-- David
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