Well, that hasn't changed .... :-) The "Browse" section of that page has links to the actual news.
More of this page needs to be generated dynamically from news.xml, but that can wait until next quarter (when the list of linked news pages will have to change). On 10/18/05, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The News link in the RHS column: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/index.html > > points to a page that contains past news only - the current news is > not included, nor is there a link to it... > > S. > On 18/10/05, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I *thought* I was being careful; I'll go recover those entries. Not > > sure how things got lost. > > > > On 10/18/05, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. 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