On 1 September 2011 13:40, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13:09 +0100, sebb wrote: >> We have a general mailing list page [1], but we also generate >> individual pages for each project [2]. >> >> The general page is very thorough, but does not contain a summary of >> the lists and archives etc. >> The individual pages have a neat summary, but don't include the >> necessary information regarding posting etiquette etc. >> >> So I think it would be helpful to users if we tidy this up. >> >> It's now possible to customise Maven info reports, including the >> mailing list page [3], so it is now possible to add more information >> to the individual reports; for example I created a sample mail-list >> page at: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/hc/mail-lists.html >> > > Looks really good!
Not all my own work - I just adapted the example. > >> Unfortunately, it seems to be quite complicated to use the same >> properties file for all modules, so this would involve adding the same >> file to each project. [Tedious initially, and tedious to maintain, but >> hopefully that would not be a frequent occurrence once the >> wording/layout is agreed initially.] >> >> Alternatively, we can just drop the auto-generated mail pages, which >> all have the same body content anyway (I think). If we do that, we >> should probably add a table like the one from the generated page [2] >> to the end of [1] >> >> Thoughts? >> > > How about just manually creating symlinks in all modules to one master > file residing at the project top level? Wouldn't these get lost when redeploying the site? And if we drop the report from sub-modules then the link will disappear from the navigation. We already have a master file at top-level which is in all the menus. > Oleg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
