Hi Javier, Do you agree the FAQ could better be typesetted from the .deb? Or am I missing something here? (I've had a chat with David Prévot about this bug, he mentioned you were involved in setting this all up and had some insight in it.)
Bye, Joost PS/Note to self: involved scripts: git/debwww/cron/parts/7doc git/debwww/cron/parts/7doc_manuals svn/debian/manuals/trunk/Makefile On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > Previous, in > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170806213642.ga17...@beskar.mdcc.cx : > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 11:06:54PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 11:36:42PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 06:38:51PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 01:06:40PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > <snip> > > > > > We'll be discussing the state of Debian's Documentation, what we > > > > > would > > > > > like it to be (the Arch wiki?), and how to get there. > > > <snip> > > > The BoF was not video-d > <snip> > > > Here's the "slides", and, more importantly, some notes/conclusions > > > reached. > > > > > > Debian Documentation BoF > > > by > > > you and Joost van Baal-Ilić > <snip> > > > DebConf17, Montréal, august 2017 > <snip> > > > Notes taken during the discussion > > > - faq should not be typesetted at webserver; website should use .deb of > > > faq > <snip> > > The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, as publised at > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ , is one of the very few of our > documents which gets fetched from VC and build/typesetted by the webserver; > most other documents use the content as shipped by the document's .deb > packages. The latter scheme is better since it saves resource usage on our > webserver. We loose frequent updates of the web-published content. However, > the source content of our documents is no longer updated very frequently > anyway, so I feel we're ready for using the .deb. > > I plan to fix this bug myself. Note to self: hack on > ssh://git.debian.org/git/debwww/cron.git (Thanks Osamu Aoki.)
