CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Jason Self <jxself> 11/03/25 22:50:08
Modified files:
server/standards: README.webmastering.html
Log message:
Updating README.webmastering.html with information on the new News
process
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.119&r2=1.120
Patches:
Index: README.webmastering.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html,v
retrieving revision 1.119
retrieving revision 1.120
diff -u -b -r1.119 -r1.120
--- README.webmastering.html 14 Feb 2011 23:58:31 -0000 1.119
+++ README.webmastering.html 25 Mar 2011 22:49:32 -0000 1.120
@@ -549,62 +549,18 @@
<h4 id="polnews">Adding news: whatsnew</h4>
-<p>News items are posted by adding a new entry to the top of the
-<tt>/server/whatsnew.txt</tt> file (newest first). The format of this
-file is as follows:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>an optional asterisk—if present this means the item should be a
- GNUs Flash;</li>
-<li>the date of the news item;</li>
-<li>a newline;</li>
-<li>the HTML text of the news item, possibly spanning many lines;</li>
-<li>a blank line to end the entry.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Here are two example entries, the first a GNUs Flash:</p>
-
-<pre>
-* 19 November 2004
-<a href="/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html">FSF is currently seeking a
-full-time Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer</a>
-
-14 September 2004
-Added Richard Stallman's new article:
-<a href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html">Fighting Software
- Patents - Singly and Together</a>, with a link from the
-<a
href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#LicensingFreeSoftware">Philosophy</a>
page.
-</pre>
-
-<p>These news items are used in several ways:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>to make the <tt>/server/whatsnew.include</tt> page, which gets
- included into <a href="/server/whatsnew.html">
- /server/whatsnew.html</a>);</li>
-<li>to make the <a href="/rss/whatsnew.rss">GNU What's New RSS</a>
- feed;</li>
-<li>optionally to make GNUs Flashes on the home page;</li>
-<li>all of the above available in other languages via
- the <a
- href="/software/trans-coord/manual/gnun/html_node/GNU-News.html">special
- rules</a> in GNUnited Nations.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Please do not use characters like é or ö—they are
-not supported and the build will fail. Writing them as HTML entities
-will result in failure, too.</p>
-
-<p>Once the <tt>/server/whatsnew.txt</tt> file has been edited there is
-no need to do anything more. The news files are remade every hour by a
-cron job running on ya...@fencepost.gnu.org. If something goes wrong, a
-log of from the build should always be sent to the
-<tt>trans-coord-de...@gnu.org</tt> mailing list; check the web archives
-and/or email www-discuss if you notice a problem is going unfixed.</p>
-
-<p>The cron job rebuilds the news according to the Makefile specified
-in /rss/Makefile. The target <code>gnunews</code> is used.</p>
-
+<p>News items are posted by adding a new "News" entry to the
+<a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www";>www project on
+Savannah</a>.
+
+<p>Once that is done there is no need to do anything more. The News
+item will eventually appear on <a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>
+http://planet.gnu.org</a>. A cron job run by the Chief Webmaster
+will trigger <a href="/server/source/source.html>planetrss.pl</a>
+to pull new items from the RSS feed and add them to
+<a href="/planetfeeds.html">/planetfeeds.html</a>
+where they are then included in home.html via an SSI Include
+directive. Email www-discuss if something seems to be wrong.</p>
<h3 id="pollinking">Linking policies</h3>
@@ -1183,7 +1139,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/02/14 23:58:31 $
+$Date: 2011/03/25 22:49:32 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
