As I linked, recently folks mentioned bug trackers as weblogs. My bug tracker of choice is Roundup, and I've been feeling the similarity some, though at the aggregation end: I've been quite wanting Roundup to publish RSS somehow.

So last night when I should've been sleeping, after a false start trying to make an RSS template, I wrote a Roundup detector that writes "RSS 2.0." (Ugh, am I ever feeling it today.) I put RSS 2.0 in scare quotes because it doesn't validate: I didn't know how to turn an issue Date into the proper <pubDate> format, so it's in the wrong format. Richard told me how on the roundup-users list, so I'll fix it some time, but that posted version won't make valid RSS 2.0.

This is the first half of the round trip:

1. Roundup to RSS
2. RSS to Reader
3. Reader to Blog

Missing: Roundup should be able to consume bugs, and comments on bugs, posted to a blogger's RSS feeds.