Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:08:42 +0100 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: The end of the contributors article Message-ID: <1168765723.1100.13.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> In-Reply-To: <20070114.015751.59745560.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <1168562996.1100.42.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> <20070112.201104.113738010.hrs@allbsd.org> <1168633900.1082.38.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se> <20070114.015751.59745560.hrs@allbsd.org>
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Sön 2007-01-14 klockan 01:57 +0900 skrev Hiroki Sato: > Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote > in <1168633900.1082.38.camel@jesus.automatvapen.se>: > > jo> Fre 2007-01-12 klockan 20:11 +0900 skrev Hiroki Sato: > jo> > It is good to make the contributors list up-to-date, but what is the > jo> > benefit to move it to the www tree? And where is the source file? > jo> > jo> You'll get to see the source when I have something to show you. > > Thanks. I'll wait. > > jo> > I think issue we have for the list is that this sort of information > jo> > is scattered in the doc/www tree and the scattered information is > jo> > difficult to maintain (remember a case of the mirror site list). So > jo> > I think the direction we should go is to have a directory for the > jo> > developers, build a structure to pick up necessary information from > jo> > it, and leave the maintenance to each developer (like pgpkey). > jo> > Maintaining such a directory in an HTML page is not a good idea---if > jo> > we have active maintainers of the list it will work, but it will not > jo> > last long unfortunately. Since I could not find the source file of > jo> > your proposed team.html I am not sure how this page was generated, > jo> > but if it was done by hand let's take account of the maintenance > jo> > issue first. > jo> > jo> I've been maintaining the contributors article for almost 1,5 year now, > jo> in case you haven't noticed. This won't change anytime soon. > > Yes, I know. I do not doubt if your activity would change. > > The matter I am concerned about is simply moving the contributors > list to an HTML page would not help to reuse/centralize such > scattered information (for example, we have some duplicated > information in pgpkeys-*.sgml and the committers-guide, too). To me, > your proposed change is to update the list (yes, this is great. > thanks a lot!) but there is no obvious reason to move all of the > related information in the source file to the www tree. > > jo> - This information does not really belong in an article. > > Could you elaborate this? As mentioned in the previous mail, I think > this information should be in an independent database file, not > belong in either article or an HTML page in the www tree. Yes, I remember you suggesting this XX months ago, and I *really* like the concept of storing developer information (such as login id, pgpkey, current hats, commit bit type, location etc) in a database, but the truth is that I haven't seen any progress since then. I consider my work to be the best solution in the meantime. -- Joel
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