-----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
