Comment 7 for bug 129943

Jono mentioned: "... all without increasing the load time of the front page."

I see two solutions to this:

1. Use Ajax to load the RSS feed on the page. The question is what to use as a fallback if the feed does not load for some reason so that that space on the homepage does not stay empty. Some general text about Launchpad? The "Recent blog posts section" which we'd have to continue updating at each roll-out?

2. Use a cronscript to poll the RSS feed and put the posts somewhere (In a file? in the database?) so that the homepage can take them from there. This has the advantage that, should the feed fail, we still have the latest blog posts to display. This needs another cronscript and possibly a database patch.

Any other ideas?