On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13:56 +0100, sebb wrote: > On 1 September 2011 13:40, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13:09 +0100, sebb wrote: > >> We have a general mailing list page [1], but we also generate > >> individual pages for each project [2]. > >> > >> The general page is very thorough, but does not contain a summary of > >> the lists and archives etc. > >> The individual pages have a neat summary, but don't include the > >> necessary information regarding posting etiquette etc. > >> > >> So I think it would be helpful to users if we tidy this up. > >> > >> It's now possible to customise Maven info reports, including the > >> mailing list page [3], so it is now possible to add more information > >> to the individual reports; for example I created a sample mail-list > >> page at: > >> > >> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/hc/mail-lists.html > >> > > > > Looks really good! > > Not all my own work - I just adapted the example. > > > > >> Unfortunately, it seems to be quite complicated to use the same > >> properties file for all modules, so this would involve adding the same > >> file to each project. [Tedious initially, and tedious to maintain, but > >> hopefully that would not be a frequent occurrence once the > >> wording/layout is agreed initially.] > >> > >> Alternatively, we can just drop the auto-generated mail pages, which > >> all have the same body content anyway (I think). If we do that, we > >> should probably add a table like the one from the generated page [2] > >> to the end of [1] > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > > > > How about just manually creating symlinks in all modules to one master > > file residing at the project top level? > > Wouldn't these get lost when redeploying the site? > And if we drop the report from sub-modules then the link will > disappear from the navigation. > > We already have a master file at top-level which is in all the menus. >
It was just a thought. Feel free to implement whatever solution you deem most appropriate and you have time for. I will not be of much help until I am done with the next releases of HttpCore, HttpAsyncClient and HttpClient. Cheers Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
