Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:09:16 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: monthly@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CGI] (Bi-)Monthly XML-composer Message-ID: <4256C8CC.9060102@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200504081532.19834.max@love2party.net> References: <200504081532.19834.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier wrote:
>Hi,
>
>as discussed here briefly after the last round of the status reports, Julian
>has come up with a CGI-script that helps to fill the bi-monthly status report
>xml-template. I extended it slightly to take care of the newer features. In
>contrast to Julian's original approach, this one also sets "Content-Type:
>text/plain" so that you get a download of the resulting xml, rather than a
>html to copy and paste from. I found that easier to handle esp. in
>cli-environments.
>
>
sure.. I'm not fussed on how this is done.. as long as it's easier than
hand formatiting it :-)
>In preparation on the next round of status-reports, we'd like to get something
>along those lines on the FreeBSD website ASAP. Hence I really appreciate
>review and especially style nits ("cooperate identity" etc.).
>
>Thanks in advance, and many thanks to Julian for coming up with the prototype.
>
>
probably a better name.. :-) monthly_formatter.cgi or something.
also, the reason we ask you to cut-n-paste the result into your mail
program is that just adding a button
"submit" is asking for 10,000 trolls to spam the monthly list with crap.
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