From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EY20l-0006pG-HN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:53:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4DqMPk020416; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:52:22 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.117]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4Dn1iX022047 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:49:02 GMT Received: from [67.191.242.121] (c-67-191-242-121.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[67.191.242.121]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005110413490001300o2aqle>; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:49:00 +0000 Message-ID: <436B6644.4090507@ieee.org> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:46:44 -0500 From: "Nathan L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <436AF548.8070406@ieee.org> <200511040032.25592.electronerd@monolith3d.com> <200511041033.06340.pauldv@gentoo.org> <436B34BD.7040509@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <436B34BD.7040509@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ba91a5f-d2bf-4f9b-a948-d3faac7aa54b X-Archives-Hash: 638da86e7a26eff48df9cdc8bb6692af -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDa2ZE2QTTR4CNEQARAvNVAJ4+q94QFV+fik4FRCywX1N1Yh1s9QCfab7m trmF40e9e33usGS7EbpMjoQ= =tPJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list