Re: [xmlroff] Re: xmlroff website help wanted

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

Tony Graham wrote:

> I've added a new item (partly so you can see what I've been working on
> when I didn't reply yesterday), but when I generate news.html, all I
> get is an empty <div>.  Any ideas?

Sorry, no. Doing a build locally, I get the content wrapped in
'<div class="rss">'. Is it the same <div> you see, just empty ?

> It shouldn't be a proxy problem, since I'm no longer getting the error
> message that I used to get before I had my proxy set up.

may be a <xsl:message> put into the xslt file to 'debug' the process
will reveal whether the rss feed could be accessed correctly.

> If I'd answered yesterday, I would have said that it would be
> comparatively easy to generate a version of the test results report
> that didn't link to the cgi scripts for updating the result summaries.
> 
> Today, it seems to me that an occasional visitor would be more
> impressed if there was a graph showing number of tests and percentage
> of passed tests (increasing) over time.  Now, that would be more work.

yeah, you'd have to keep a log of the tests.
Well, if I'm interested in the evolution of the project, I'd track the
'news'. If I want to get an idea of the 'current status', I'd look at
the feature coverage (i.e. both the static matrix you generate manually
as well as a possible automatically generated test report).

>>Just so that occasional visitors that want to watch the progress
>>in terms of feature coverage could get a quick impression.
> 
> 
> A good idea, certainly.  Would the static test result summary page
> suffice for starters?

Sure. As long as it is not too much out of sync. One thing I hope we
could improve over the current website is to make sure the information
correctly reflects the current status, i.e. at least the state from
the current release, may be even from current 'snapshots'. Having to
update lots of different places is annoying for you, so I hope with
some scripts we can automatize that.
Running the tests should be something that can be done automatically,
and so should be the generation of a little report (html, xml, rss, whatever).

Regards,
		Stefan