discuss: Fully automatic publishing! http://www.tldp.org/en/ (thanks to Serge)
Subject:
Re: Fully automatic publishing! http://www.tldp.org/en/ (thanks to
Serge)
From:
"Jason S. Evans" ####@####.####
Date:
30 Mar 2016 09:34:55 +0100
Message-Id: <20160330083604.24a0814b@d14aa1608689>
Wow, this is pretty amazing! Thanks for all of the hard work.
Jason
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:47:20 -0700
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.#### wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> TLDP now has fully automatic publishing from source repository!
>
> Serge spent a good portion of his weekend spinning up the 'ldptool'
> software under an automation/build system (semaphoreci.com).
>
> Now, document publication is running in a fully-automated fashion. I
> can confirm that when I commit something to the LDP document
> repository (https://github.com/tLDP/LDP), the automated build kicks
> off and copies (via rsync) any of the changed outputs into place on
> the TLDP server at ibiblio.
>
> The HOWTOs, guides, refs and faqs are now all available here:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/en/ # -- not configured with indexing (yet?)
>
> For example, our most recent submission from Guido Gonzato was
> accepted a week or two ago and was named 'Linux-Android-HOWTO'. It
> is visible here:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Linux-Android-HOWTO/
>
> So, until we make this new area live, here are a few randomly chosen
> document examples. If you know the stem of the document, you can
> find it.
>
> Linuxdoc
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Text-Terminal-HOWTO/
> http://www.tldp.org/en/User-Group-HOWTO/
>
> DocBook XML 4.x
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Intro-Linux/
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/
>
> DocBook SGML
> http://www.tldp.org/en/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
>
> DocBook XML 5.0
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Assembly-HOWTO/
> http://www.tldp.org/en/Package-Management-Basics-HOWTO/
>
> Note: These are not indexed yet (metadata question remains) and,
> while they are visible to those who know the URL they are not live.
> When we run the migration scripts, all of these documents will
> become live and will be the preferred location(s) for the
> TLDP-published content.
>
> If anybody sees anything in the formatting of the outputs that is
> tricky, please mention it here on the list (or email me directly, if
> you prefer).
>
> We should soon be able to rebuild and republish the entire document
> hierarchy easily, if we find improvements to the stylesheet
> transformations.
>
> I have no doubt that we will find styling and consistency
> improvements over time.
>
> I'm proud to report the success of the automatic publishing. I will
> write some more under separate cover about what steps remain to
> complete the migration to the new filesystem layout.
>
> -Martin
>