discuss: updated Design Notes
Subject:
Re: updated Design Notes
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
3 Mar 2002 16:50:02 -0000
Message-Id: <10203031148.ZM7133@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Mar 2, 10:55pm, Steve Sanfratello wrote:
> Subject: Re: updated Design Notes
> it's interesting to read about what goes on "behind
> the scenes." you've got excellent ideas for improvements.
> all of the database and perl programming intimidates
> me away from volunteering. but your plans to make
> it easier to put in some volunteer work sound great.
>
> i didn't realize how manual the process was. it's
> begging for automation. keep it up David!
David vastly overstated the "manual-ness" of the process.
It's ONE script that produces ALL outputs given a SGML/XML
instance (any valid DTD we accept), and then ONE script that
copies all formats to their proper place(s). It's really not
all that bad/ugly. He made it sound like a "chewing gum
and bailing twine" style hack.
(and you should have seen the process before I put this in place...)
If you want to do some work for the LDP, I have something I
can hand off to you right away...maintenance of all the links
pages (http://linuxdoc.org/links/). Any takers?
--
Ferg
