Hi, "Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> 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 Should that happen, it should be quite trivial to put together (for instance) a Python+Jinja2 or Perl script to generate both forms from a common source. That should be very little engineering ;). In addition, such a program would make it easy to also provide RSS feeds besides the Atom ones, which some might benefit from (IIRC, Gnus doesn't ship Atom support yet, for instance). I am in favor of putting more words out there, news tends to grab attention, which could benefit both users and the project. >>> 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.. The W3C provides a validator for feeds too: https://validator.w3.org/feed/ and indeed, there's a schema, see RFC4287 appendix B (<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287#appendix-B>). >> What do others think? >> >> Gerald Hope that helps! -- Arsen Arsenović
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