P6 doesn't support RSS yet, because the RSS specification is far too new. (RSS 1.0 came out in December 2000, well after P6 was underway.) Thus it behooves Raiph to report every little piece of gossip, no matter how small, because otherwise how would the interested hordes find out that not much is happening?
There's a friendly competition with Diaspora to see which project can get the highest ratio of press releases to actual users.
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
