From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 21:44:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F5416A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:44:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc4-cdif3-6-1-cust116.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.23.41.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EE543D1F for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DK1HT-000AtO-6B; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:44:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:44:47 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Max Laier Message-ID: <20050408214447.GO19136@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Max Laier , freebsd-www@freebsd.org References: <200504081532.19834.max@love2party.net> <4256C8CC.9060102@elischer.org> <200504082140.01725.max@love2party.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504082140.01725.max@love2party.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CGI] (Bi-)Monthly XML-composer X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:44:49 -0000 --BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:39:55PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: > On Friday 08 April 2005 20:09, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Max Laier wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >as discussed here briefly after the last round of the status reports, > > > Julian has come up with a CGI-script that helps to fill the bi-monthly > > > status report xml-template. I extended it slightly to take care of t= he > > > newer features. In contrast to Julian's original approach, this one = also > > > sets "Content-Type: text/plain" so that you get a download of the > > > resulting xml, rather than a html to copy and paste from. I found th= at > > > easier to handle esp. in cli-environments. > > > > sure.. I'm not fussed on how this is done.. as long as it's easier than > > hand formatiting it :-) > > > > >In preparation on the next round of status-reports, we'd like to get > > > something along those lines on the FreeBSD website ASAP. Hence I rea= lly > > > appreciate review and especially style nits ("cooperate identity" etc= =2E). > > > > > >Thanks in advance, and many thanks to Julian for coming up with the > > > prototype. > > > > probably a better name.. :-) monthly_formatter.cgi or something. > > > > also, the reason we ask you to cut-n-paste the result into your mail > > program is that just adding a button > > "submit" is asking for 10,000 trolls to spam the monthly list with crap. >=20 > That's understood. Hence the download. Or you could open yourself up to a load of hassle by doing something like www/en/send-pr.sgml + www/en/cgi/sendpr-code.cgi. > Here is a slightly cleaned up version, that uses cgi-style.pl to FreeBSD-= ify=20 > the form. Do we have Perl CGI on www or do we really need to do this wit= h=20 > cgi-lib.pl? I'd really love to get this done. Comments please. CGI.pm works on www, yes. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCVvtPocfcwTS3JF8RAgi8AJ42+x/c+2nYU1Dj2G/VCS1XP80NSQCfeni/ Cn8qqzFIaIvDwEHaAyM9ZHA= =dJbk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BFVE2HhgxTpCzM8t--