Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

[Nathan L. Adams]

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Grobian wrote:
> Danny van Dyk wrote:
>
>> IMHO a text based file has a big advantage in this proposed application
>> over fileformats which use XML: Any administrator can read it with his
>> editor of choice, right from the console.
>
>
> This is an important aspect for sure, but why can't such file be
> generated from a marked up one?  Because the same message will be put in
> multiple forms (ideally) it is best to have a version with all the
> required meta-data to generate all the other formats, because if you
> have to add such meta-data it's usually much worse (= manual or
> conditional human work).
>
> Some people like reading console messages, others plain text mail
> messages, others want html marked up mail messages, other others like
> reading an rss-feed, and of course there are people that like to read
> the full fledged funky marked up with all hyperlinks possible html
> version on the web.
> I think the only real importance is that all representations can easily
> be generated from the original source, be that XML, reStructuredText or
> any other format.
>
> With regard to being it hard to write or not, I think these kind of
> messages are very well suited for templates, so it is just a matter of
> filling in the message, which should make the underlying format not so
> important.
>
> Just my €0.02 on the XML vs. plain text discussion.
>
>

A very good point. You could even offer a web form for those who don't
even want to edit the template by hand.
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