Re: [wwwdocs] Complete revamp of our web site

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Yeah, I understand.  Adherence to the gnu scheme just isn't high on my
> priority list.  I think they've made some mistakes in their layout
> choice, I'd rather we not follow them.

Let's see how they respond to feedback!

> I suppose we could do something similar on gcc.gnu.org... check in one
> file per news item, then have blosxom (or something) run to make files
> which are then passed through mhtml.  (For all I know mhtml already
> has a module for this kind of thing.  Do you know?)

I don't, but once we have something that generates HTML or HTML snippets, 
I'll be happy to help and see what I can do push things onto the web 
pages.

> With this approach we get relatively easy editing (still requires a
> checkin, but better than what we have now), and XML feed (via blosxom)
> and a way to get the HTML on our main page.
> 
> Really I'm just try to propose something so awful that some volunteer
> will recoil with disgust and write something better.  :)

Unfortunately nobody bite so far. :(

Gerald