On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:22:24AM +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > This seems like a good idea, however I believe some data has got lost in > the conversion. Commons-IO was released on October 10/11th, but (unless > I'm blind) has managed to disappear. > > Also, could we move the RSS icon next to the 'News' hyperlink on the > homepage? Would seem to make more sense there. > > Stephen >
Same story with the Commons HttpClient 3.0-rc4 release. It has been released on Oct 11th but the corresponding entry in the News section is no longer there. Oleg > > Howard Lewis Ship wrote: > >I adapted some build files and style sheets from my personal web site > >for Jakarta this morning, while posting the Tapestry 4.0-beta-11 > >release notes. > > > >Having posted a lot (!) of releases, I've grown very frustrated with > >the very manual, tedious process. > > > >There is now a general news files, news.xml, in the jakarta-site2 > >directory. > > > >This file contains all new news. > > > >The build process uses this file to generate an RSS feed, and to > >generate XML content files in the site/news folder (which are then > >converted to HTML). > > > >The master index (at jakarta.apache.org/index.html) is generated from > >this file as well (it is limited to the most recent 20 entries). > > > >The format should be easy to grasp. A root <news> element contains > ><group> elements. Each <group> has an @id and a @title and will be > >used to generate a single news file in the site/news folder. > >Currently, a "group" is a calendar quarter, but this can change in the > >future if things really heat up (i.e., monthly news pages rather than > >quarterly). > > > ><group> contains <release> and <news>. Both of these contain an @id > >attribute (consisting of "YYYYMMDD.x", i.e., a date stamp and index > >within a day), and a @date attribute (a formatted date, such as "17 > >October 2005"). I suspect some clever juggling could programatically > >generate the date from the id, but oh well. > > > ><release> contains @product which is the product that was released > >(i.e., "Tapestry 4.0-beta-11"). > > > ><news> contains @title which is simply the title of the news entry > >(i.e., "Right Commons-Cli 1.0 Jar Now In Java Repository"). > > > ><release> and <news> contains a body of markup, the details about that > >product release or general news entry. > > > >I also update the site.xml navigation, to add a link to the RSS feed. > > > >I'm quite happy with how it came out. An RSS feed makes the site feel > >a bit more modern and cared for. > > > >I suspect at some point we'll need to find a way to split this one > >news file into several files, but beyond that, this seems like an > >approach we can all live with. > > > >-- > >Howard M. Lewis Ship > >Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant > >Creator, Jakarta Tapestry > >Creator, Jakarta HiveMind > > > >Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support > >and project work. http://howardlewisship.com > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
