Re: Up-to-date News on GCJ

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'll ask around.  I'm using blosxom... it is ok but perhaps there's
>> something a bit more user-friendly for gcc.gnu.org.

Ranjit> Note that the current GCC wiki software lets you have an
Ranjit> RSS feed for the page history of a particular wiki page.

I looked at this but there doesn't seem to be any actual content in
there -- just a link to a diff.  (Hopefully I'm not mistake about that
:-).  I'm not too concerned about the mechanism, just the result.  I
want folks to be able to subscribe to a feed and get news items in
rssowl or Planet GCC or whatever.

>> * The gcj main page is nice web design from 1998... look at mono's web
>> pages to get an idea of what it should look like in 2006.  In
>> particular, we could have more useful information in less space, so
>> that visitors can get a decent overview without having to scroll.

Ranjit> We should do it in tandem with the rest of the GCC web pages.

Yeah.  Though... we do have different PR needs than GCC as a whole.
IMO it would be fine if we diverged in style, appearance, content, etc.

Ranjit> Perhaps we can remove (or prominently display a deprecation notice
Ranjit> on) the corresponding web pages.

Nuke 'em.

Ranjit> (Newbie question: How do I change the left side bar on the GCJ
Ranjit> pages? Where is the text for this thing picked up from?)

There is a 'style.mhtml' file in htdocs/.
This is added to the page by a processing step done at cvs commit time.

Ranjit> We should be a bit careful while moving relatively-important
Ranjit> pages to the wiki.

Ranjit>   4. The licence for such documentation is not clear to me. If
Ranjit>   the FSF wants to incorporate anything in the wiki into the
Ranjit>   manuals for GCC/GCJ, what can it do besides tracking down the
Ranjit>   author(s) of the relevant bits and getting an agreement for
Ranjit>   publication?

Yeah, this is an issue.  But I think our web pages have the same issue
-- I don't remember getting paperwork for the java web pages in
general, at least not in the early days.  (In later days, basically no
one works on them.)

There is plenty of info that should go in the wiki though, especially
things that change a lot.  Also I think we can migrate things into
the documentation as needed by rewriting.

>> * We should have javadoc for libgcj online, by release.

Ranjit> Can we get by by linking to the GNU Classpath API documentation
Ranjit> instead?

Yeah, a link like that would be helpful.  It is a little deceptive,
especially for users of older gcj releases.  But... they also have
the source I suppose :)

Tom