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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:37:43 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, joel@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects projects.sgml
Message-ID:  <20060724163742.GE1091@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20060725.005910.21928068.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <200607141802.k6EI2L2D019407@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060724153822.GA5102@tara.freenix.org> <20060725.005910.21928068.hrs@allbsd.org>

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On 2006.07.25 00:59:10 +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> wrote
>   in <20060724153822.GA5102@tara.freenix.org>:
> 
> ro> According to Joel Dahl:
> ro> >   Log:
> ro> >   Update the projects page a bit.  I've removed a bunch of links, some of them
> ro> >   were dead and some of them linked to unmaintained projects.  This is just
> ro> >   the first step though -- I'm working on a complete rewrite of the projects
> ro> >   page.
> ro>
> ro> What about splitting it into a two steps process, one to put data into a
> ro> to-be-specified format (YAML?) and the other that generate the SGML?
> ro>
> ro> That would make it easier to add/remove/edit w/o having to write (and
> ro> check) the full SGML/XML "page"...
> 
>  I also think that idea is reasonable.  We are already using some XML
>  databases for the purpose, and splitting the page into design and
>  its contents should make the maintenance easy (and also the
>  translators happy by using the existing usergroups.xml model, for
>  example).

Considering it's just a long list with a few sections which is only
displayed in one place isn't that a bit overkill?  I'm not going to
complain if anyone does it, but it just seems a bit like overkill to
me.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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