I'd like to update the way the footer is created for DWN. At the moment, we're using wml::debian::weeklynews::footer which has a large sliced switch statement to reflect the different set of authors for DWN.
This worked well when Joy was preparing DWN, since not much changed. However, recently it became Tollef, then Tollef + Zonker, then Zonker and me, then Yooseong and me, then me, now it's Matt Black, Andre Lehovich and me, and it'll probably change again in the future. I don't like the idea of editing the footer.wml file each time there are different authors for DWN, especially since this requires a full rebuild of all DWN issues. Therefore, I'd rather like to have an additional mechanism to specify the authors on a per-issue bases. I'm thinking about something like: <define-tag authors>Matt Black, Andre Lehovich, Martin Schulze</define-tag> #use wml::debian::weeklynews::footer or just #use wml::debian::weeklynews::footer if the fallback from footer.wml is used. That would mean that footer.wml would require some magic code to split up the <authors> tag, add mailto anchors and format it according to the current language setting. Hmm, wait, that would mean adding another mail address would force a rebuild again. Could somebody cook up a solution for this? Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
