From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 18:09:18 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 B7A0016A4CE; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB1543D60; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:09:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [208.206.78.97] (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E717A403; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4256C8CC.9060102@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:09:16 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050218 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Laier References: <200504081532.19834.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <200504081532.19834.max@love2party.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: Julian Elischer cc: monthly@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 18:09:18 -0000 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 the 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 that 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 really appreciate >review and especially style nits ("cooperate identity" etc.). > >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.