Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

[Lance Albertson]

Aron Griffis wrote:
> Grant Goodyear wrote:	[Tue Jan 10 2006, 11:09:15AM EST]
>
>>As an aside, it's ciarnanm has already put work in on developing an RST to
>>guidexml converter, so I wouldn't worry too much about RST not scaling.
>
>
> Could that be used dynamically on the server?  The last time I was
> familiar with the gentoo.org server, it was running axkit and
> dynamically generating HTML from the GuideXML.  Is it a relatively
> simple matter to support .rst files in the same manner?

Actually, we're moving away from axkit because its a PITA to maintain.
Currently, two of the three web nodes are running a home grown app
called gorg that runs via ruby. It seems to work rather well.

> A related question: How hard would it be to enable the dynamic
> generation for dev.gentoo.org/~users?  That would make development of
> RST or GuideXML documents *much* simpler, since we could just work on
> the file in our public_html and test render it by accessing through
> a web browser.

Last I knew, its not a simple task for generating those nice looking
html pages that ciaranm made a while back for the developer docs. When I
asked him about (he can probably provide more detail), It took a lot of
processing time and wasn't that scalable. Now, I'm not sure if anything
has changed since then.

I can probably setup toucan to use gorg in some fashion if I had a few
folks to test it with. I'm sure that would make things easier for a lot
of people for rendering things.

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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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