I find that as long as you read and follow the Gentoo XML Guide,
writing docs is easy and using XML is handy. What I like the most is,
as it was already noted, that I don't have to take care of the layout.
However I have never found anything about writing project pages. Is
there anything out
Denis Dupeyron wrote:
I find that as long as you read and follow the Gentoo XML Guide,
writing docs is easy and using XML is handy. What I like the most is,
as it was already noted, that I don't have to take care of the layout.
However I have never found anything about writing project pages.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Josh Saddler wrote:
Denis Dupeyron wrote:
I find that as long as you read and follow the Gentoo XML Guide,
writing docs is easy and using XML is handy. What I like the most is,
as it was already noted, that I don't have to take care of the layout.
However I
On 3/28/07, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do (sort of), and it is documented at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/projectxml.xml
Unfortunately I don't know of any page that uses all features, but if you look
around you can find some.
Thanks Paul, that's exactly what I
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:01 -0500, Mike Bonar wrote:
Should we encourage more content to go into the wiki, expecially
content that is likely to change over a short period of time?
Gentoo has no wiki.
Not entirely true,
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Anant Narayanan wrote:
I guess the point of last year's GuideXML SoC project was to help devs
who didn't find writing GuideXML *cough* exciting *cough* enough. Which
is why I developed Beacon [1]. Looks like the project hasn't been as
successful
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
On 3/28/07, Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do (sort of), and it is documented at:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/projectxml.xml
Unfortunately I don't know of any page that uses all features, but if you
look
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:29 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:01 -0500, Mike Bonar wrote:
Should we encourage more content to go into the wiki, expecially
content that is likely to change over a
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Hi Vlastimil,
I think it lacks advertisement, IMHO many people just know there was
such project but have no idea if it was completed or what. And
having it
online (at least some demo) would help greatly so people can easily
try
it out without
First off, this is not a discussion on why XML sucks, or why we shouldn't
be using XML or anything like that. This is not a discussion about what
we should be using instead of XML. This is a discussion about using XML
for our webpages.
Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:05 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult?
As one who does a fair amount of web development myself. I rather like
the guidexml formatted docs. Writing them is not a big deal at all.
Do
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do you as a developer find writing web pages to be confusing or
difficult?
No.
Is there not a good tutorial for learning our webpage XML syntax?
For my use, I've found the available docs sufficient.
Do you find
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snip my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages
On Monday 26 March 2007 15:05, Alec Warner wrote:
First off, this is not a discussion on why XML sucks, or why we shouldn't
be using XML or anything like that. This is not a discussion about what
we should be using instead of XML. This is a discussion about using XML
for our webpages.
Many
On Monday 26 March 2007, Alec Warner wrote:
Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a problem within
gentoo since before I arrived and probably has been a problem since we
started having webpages. One of the issues I wish to address is whether
or not writing webpages in XML
Alec Warner escribió:
So this is getting pretty long winded; my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult? Is there
not a good tutorial for learning our webpage XML syntax? Do you find that
you bump up against restrictions in the DTD or other
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:01 -0500, Mike Bonar wrote:
Should we encourage more content to go into the wiki, expecially
content that is likely to change over a short period of time?
Gentoo has no wiki.
--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
[snip]
Err, where the heck has gone the GuideXML editor project that was part
of last SoC?
(And yeah, I've heard from quite a couple of people that they are not
touching any docs because the GuideXML thing is something they'd rather
avoid like plague).
--
Best regards,
Jakub Moc
Jakub Moc escribió:
[snip]
Err, where the heck has gone the GuideXML editor project that was part
of last SoC?
Its name is 'beacon' [1] and is developed by our dev Anant Narayanan who
probably can give you more info about it.
[1] http://code.kix.in/projects/beacon/
--
Jose Luis Rivero
* Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07/03/26 08:05 -0700]:
So this is getting pretty long winded; my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult?
I'm one of the few people who like XML. Probably it's
because I don't have to care for the design and
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Alec Warner escribió:
So this is getting pretty long winded; my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult? Is there
not a good tutorial for learning our
Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a problem within
gentoo since before I arrived and probably has been a problem since we
started having webpages. One of the issues I wish to address is whether
or not writing webpages in XML (Guide or Project or something_else) is
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:46 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote:
But back to the question you started your message with: The
outdated project-pages. My opinion is, that GuideXML is not
the blocker for updating them. It's more a menpower issue.
Exactly.
Even projects that I am heavily involved in, do I
On Monday 26 March 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:05 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
my basic question is do you as a
developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult?
As one who does a fair amount of web development myself. I rather like
the guidexml
On Monday 26 March 2007, Lars Weiler wrote:
There are for sure some difficulties with our DTD,
especially for our project-pages. Adding a news-entry at
top or putting the elements in a fixed order.
And that is mostly because of the nature of DTD's. As soon as you want to
require items you
Thanks for all the replies (and the offers of help, very comforting). I
will no longer accept the excuse of 'I can't write GuideXML' since we have
an army of volunteers to GuideXMLify stuff for us :)
As such, I don't need to learn (I know enough to get by, and with this
glep index I'll soon know
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