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-<h1>Appcast Brainstorming </h1>
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-The purpose of this page is to capture software updates practices in the wild, as one effort to codify practices currently used in the automatic update system called Sparkle.
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-== Authors ==
-* [http://factoryjoe.com/ Chris Messina]
-== Context ==
-Sites like [http://iusethis.com iusethis.com], [http://versiontracker.com http://versiontracker.com], [http://macupdate.com http://macupdate.com] and [http://download.com http://download.com] among others should be investigated and documented for object names and attributes.
-Among common data in a software update changelog are changes or fixes, completed bugs, new features or modified behavior, and known issues. A version number is also typically supplied, but takes on many forms and is not always numeric.
-Lastly, this work should be seen as compatible with hAtom, possibly as a prelude to a format that could be embedded as the payload of an hfeed object.
-Work should be carried out on the [[appcast-examples | Appcast Examples]] page.