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Thierry Carrez wrote: |
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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>>Oh god help. This also points to another reason why this is not such a |
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>>good idea. Writing guideXML is a lot more work than writing an e-mail |
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>>format file (ciaran's proposed format for those who didn't recognize it). |
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>>Also having double files containing the same information is broken by |
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>>design. |
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> OK so there is two options : |
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> 1- every "news" requires a GuideXML/RST/whatever errata at a central web |
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> location |
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> Pros: |
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> - non-portage user can easily browse errata |
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> - consistency in documentation |
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> Cons: |
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> - work overhead for errata-writing dev |
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> 2- every "news" requires just a short text-based item, extra doc is optional |
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> Pros: |
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> - flexibility: short news don't require writing extra doc |
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> - external doc reuse: the documentation referenced in the news item can |
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> be some upstream upgrade doc when sufficient |
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> Cons: |
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> - lack of consistency and difficulty for non-portage users to browse |
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> We can have the best of both worlds if we find a way to reduce the work |
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> overhead to 0 (using some kind of news2errataXml translator ?). If we |
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> can't, I tend to favor the second solution... |
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Both can be done. |
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Posting news items on our front page can be done today, publishing upgrade |
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notes can be done today, grouping all upgrade documents in an upgrade category |
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on the main doc index (docs.gentoo.org) can be done today, having |
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upgrade.gentoo.org point to it can be done one hour later. |
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All of the above does not require a single line of code. |
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I suppose the news snippets could also be integrated in packages.gentoo.org, |
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hopefully without requiring too much work. |
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/ Xavier Neys |
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