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

["Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@ieee.org>]

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Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>
>>Oh god help. This also points to another reason why this is not such a 
>>good idea. Writing guideXML is a lot more work than writing an e-mail 
>>format file (ciaran's proposed format for those who didn't recognize it).
>>
>>Also having double files containing the same information is broken by 
>>design.

By the way, we're talking about 1 source file being translated into
multiple formats (email for the mailing list, news blurb for GWN, etc),
and the idea is far from broken.

> 
> OK so there is two options :
> 
> 1- every "news" requires a GuideXML/RST/whatever errata at a central web
> location

[snip]

> 2- every "news" requires just a short text-based item, extra doc is optional
> Pros:

[snip]

> We can have the best of both worlds if we find a way to reduce the work
> overhead to 0 (using some kind of news2errataXml translator ?). If we
> can't, I tend to favor the second solution...
> 

This is a wonderful comprimise. And one might even sucker me into
helping write the tool.
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