> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
>> On 2022-12-23T10:50:13+0100, "Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc-patches"
>> <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>> This patch adds an Atom feed for GCC news, which can then be easily
>>> aggregated in other sites, such as the GNU planet
>>> (https://planet.gnu.org).
>> I absolutely agree that providing such an RSS feed is a good thing
>> (..., and that we generally should make better use of our News section,
>> and other "PR"...) -- but I'm less convinced by the prospect of manually
>> editing the RSS 'news.xml' file, duplicating in a (potentially) different
>> format what we've got in the HTML News section. :-|
>
> Agreed, yet...
>
>> Ideally, there'd be some simple files for News items (Markdown, or
>> similar), which are then converted into HTML News as well as RSS feed.
>> Obviously, there needs to be some consensus on what to use, and somebody
>> needs to set up the corresponding machinery...
>
> ...how are we going to get to that?
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> I would like to point out that I have maintained these kind of feeds for
>> my own sites for years, and that in my humble personal experience unless
>> there are a lot of updates, like more than a couple of new entries per
>> month, any automated schema would be overkill, prone to rot, and not
>> really worth the effort.
>
> That is a bit of a concern. I'd love having a single source that feeds
> both the News section on our main page, rolls over into news.html, and
> also feeds the Atom feed (no pun intended).
>
> On the other hand, with less than a dozen entries per year, even if
> manually converting form one to the other takes 5 minutes, creating
> such a machinery wouldn't amortize anytime soon
Yeah I guess it all depends on how much the news section is used.
I personally think that it would be beneficial for the different GCC
projects (front-ends, back-ends, etc) to be a little more vocal, public
wise. Releasing news items more often may help with that.
Of course one could argue that making it easier to add news to the
system (without having to manually rotate the .html file, add to the
feed if desired, etc) would help with that. And probably would be right
:D
>> I strongly suggest to not overengineer here [and nowhere else :)]
>
> I am tempted to agree (even if the engineer in me would prefer to avoid
> duplication). Jose, might you be willing to help others create Atom feed
> entries?
Sure. It is as easy as adding one of these things to the .xml file:
<item>
<title>Rhhw Friday 16 March 2018 - Sunday 18 March 2018 @
Frankfurt am Main</title>
<link>http://jemarch.net/rhhw.html#16march2018</link>
<description>
The Rabbit Herd will be meeting the weekend from 16 March to
18 March.
</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 March 2018 15:00:00 CET</pubDate>
</item>
To be sure nothing breaks we may run a XML validator on the server to
reject pushes that break the .xml file. There must be an XML schema for
XML Atom feeds somewhere..
> What do others think?
>
> Gerald
