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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:11:54
Message-Id: 461D07D2.1010305@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals by "Jan Kundrát"
1 Jan Kundrát wrote:
2 > Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 >> - extend the xml
4 >
5 > The difficulty is similar to creating Yet Another format for your page.
6 >
7 >> - have everyone edit their own project pages
8 >
9 > It doesn't matter if you edit file A or file B, IMHO.
10 >
11 >> - create some parser that has to troll all of the project pages to
12 >> create a single page
13 >> - maintain said parser
14 >
15 > Which essentialy is "create and maintain an XSLT sheet" and the
16 > difficulty is similar, again.
17 >
18 >> when we could simply have a single page for everybody to edit with the
19 >> given information?
20 >
21 > Because it's reasonable to think that related information should be kept
22 > together.
23 >
24 > Cheers,
25 > -jkt
26 >
27
28 In my GLEP I gave Petteri every project lead would just send mail to
29 project-status@g.o and a rails app would attempt to sensibly
30 parse your mail and generate a page for you. This would be similar to a
31 planet-esque user-facing interface.
32
33 -Alec
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