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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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By the way, we're talking about 1 source file being translated into |
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multiple formats (email for the mailing list, news blurb for GWN, etc), |
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and the idea is far from broken. |
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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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> 2- every "news" requires just a short text-based item, extra doc is optional |
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> Pros: |
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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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This is a wonderful comprimise. And one might even sucker me into |
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helping write the tool. |
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