Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: extending project xml to have stuff that the project is working on and collect them as Gentoo current goals

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>> - extend the xml
> 
> The difficulty is similar to creating Yet Another format for your page.
> 
>> - have everyone edit their own project pages
> 
> It doesn't matter if you edit file A or file B, IMHO.
> 
>> - create some parser that has to troll all of the project pages to
>> create a single page
>> - maintain said parser
> 
> Which essentialy is "create and maintain an XSLT sheet" and the
> difficulty is similar, again.
> 
>> when we could simply have a single page for everybody to edit with the
>> given information?
> 
> Because it's reasonable to think that related information should be kept
> together.
> 
> Cheers,
> -jkt
> 

In my GLEP I gave Petteri every project lead would just send mail to 
project-status@gentoo.org and a rails app would attempt to sensibly 
parse your mail and generate a page for you.  This would be similar to a 
planet-esque user-facing interface.

-Alec
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