discuss: Erroneous 'Recent Updates' entry?
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Re: [discuss] Erroneous 'Recent Updates' entry?
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Date:
27 Apr 2006 13:05:53 -0000
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> I don't see any updates on the AI HOWTO... You can check with
> http://lists.tldp.org/, announce mailinglist.
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> Maybe Greg can explain why http://www.tldp.org/sorted_howtos.html says
> something else? We don't have any automatic system yet to update the site
> from CVS, but maybe what we see here is a stalled attempt to that effect?
I know what happened. I updated my local copy of the CVS
repository. The script that produces
http://www.tldp.org/sorted_howtos.html examines the
documents from the website to determine what have been
published. It then references the *source* file out
of the CVS repository (easier to parse the SGML/XML
than trying to "guess" at what fields are available in
HTML). We never actually published your AI HOWTO update,
but that particular version/source file was used in
the script.
Sorry about that. No easy fix I'm afraid. I would need
to "freeze" the SGML/XML source (store it elsewhere) to
ensure it matches what has actually been published on the
site. I'd rather avoid storing multiple copies of the source,
since this situation rarely happens.
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As for automation...Tille, until we strictly enforce
some higher-constrained requirements (for publishing)
upon every author/document, we will never reach that goal. IMO.
Greg
