commit: 8db770b1f0bd7f06151cf4285077695583e285f0 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Thu Dec 21 13:52:03 2017 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Dec 22 11:19:29 2017 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=8db770b1
general-concepts/news: Bring in line with updated GLEP 42. Acked-by: Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk <AT> gentoo.org> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/641928 general-concepts/news/text.xml | 24 ++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/general-concepts/news/text.xml b/general-concepts/news/text.xml index d1af53e..06b5866 100644 --- a/general-concepts/news/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/news/text.xml @@ -24,10 +24,14 @@ man page. <ul> <li> - Choose a file name in the proper format: YYYY-MM-DD-name.lang.txt, - where the date is followed by a name (a-z, 0-9, + (plus), - (hyphen) - and _ (underscore)), the two-letter ISO language code (en for English - must be chosen as default) and the file extension txt. + Choose a filename in the proper format: + <c>YYYY-MM-DD-shortname.lang.txt</c>, i.e. the date, followed by a very + short name of at most 20 characters and consisting only of <c>a-z</c>, + <c>0-9</c>, <c>+</c> (plus), <c>-</c> (hyphen) and <c>_</c> (underscore). + This is followed by <c>lang</c> which is an + <uri link="https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt";>IETF language + tag</uri>. Always use <c>en</c> for English, unless you are translating + a news item. Finally, the filename ends with the extension <c>txt</c>. </li> <li> Write the news item, which is similar to a RFC-compliant email. Details @@ -44,19 +48,11 @@ man page. importance and should be revoked (can be possible). </li> <li> - Upon acceptance, create a detached armored GnuPG signature with - gpg --local-user --detach-sign --armor YYYY-MM-DD-name.lang.txt - </li> - <li> - Verify that your signature is correct with - gpg --verify YYYY-MM-DD-name.lang.txt.asc YYYY-MM-DD-name.lang.txt - </li> - <li> Create a directory structure for your item in the gentoo-news repository (<c>git+ssh://g...@git.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git</c>): - YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-name/. + <c>YYYY-MM-DD-shortname/</c>. </li> - <li>Add both the news file and the signature to that directory.</li> + <li>Add the news file to that directory.</li> <li>Commit and push your changes to the gentoo-news repository.</li> </ul>
