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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:52:31
Message-Id: 20051104184837.24487288@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by Lance Albertson
1 On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:37:16 -0600 Lance Albertson
2 <ramereth@g.o> wrote:
3 | Could we possibly use a system thats a mix of how GLSA's and GLEP's
4 | are handled currently?
5
6 Sure, if that makes sense from an infra perspective.
7
8 | Perhaps we could do the same for the news item where they actually
9 | reside in the documentation module and the 'plain text' versions of
10 | the files get copied into the tree at regen time. Correct me if I'm
11 | wrong, but I think GLEPs are currently created as RST files then you
12 | use a converter script to make it in guidexml.
13
14 There is no published official RST to guidexml conversion tool that
15 anyone is prepared to admit to having written at this stage.
16
17 Also, you'd need to prod the docs guys to remove some of the annoying
18 chapter / section restrictions if you want to use guidexml as a
19 generated format for news items. It's hard enough mapping GLEPs onto
20 that...
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
24 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
25 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>