Comment 2 for bug 129943

Writing a Launchpad view that processes an XML or text file to generate a list of news items for the front page should not be particularly difficult. That file could be periodically downloaded by either Launchpad itself or a cron job. The news file should be cached to disk to protect against temporary problems with the service. Having the download done by a cron job would mean that no single webapp request is responsible for updating the news file.

I notice that all the existing news items point at help.launchpad.net. If we use an RSS feed from the news blog, would that mean that all news items needed to be posts on the blog? If so, is that considered a problem?