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

[Xavier Neys <neysx@gentoo.org>]

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.
> 
> 
> OK so there is two options :
> 
> 1- every "news" requires a GuideXML/RST/whatever errata at a central web
> location
> Pros:
> - non-portage user can easily browse errata
> - consistency in documentation
> Cons:
> - work overhead for errata-writing dev
> 
> 2- every "news" requires just a short text-based item, extra doc is optional
> Pros:
> - flexibility: short news don't require writing extra doc
> - external doc reuse: the documentation referenced in the news item can
> be some upstream upgrade doc when sufficient
> Cons:
> - lack of consistency and difficulty for non-portage users to browse
> 
> 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...

Both can be done.
Posting news items on our front page can be done today, publishing upgrade 
notes can be done today, grouping all upgrade documents in an upgrade category 
on the main doc index (docs.gentoo.org) can be done today, having 
upgrade.gentoo.org point to it can be done one hour later.
All of the above does not require a single line of code.

I suppose the news snippets could also be integrated in packages.gentoo.org, 
hopefully without requiring too much work.

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