Re: [xmlroff] Website project description from RSS?

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Stefan Seefeld <se...@sy...> writes:
> Tony Graham wrote:
>
>  > Shouldn't it be possible to be able to extract the project description
>  > from the xmlroff project's RSS and insert that in the generated
>  > index.html file for the xmlroff website?
>
> yes, it should...
>
>  > Most of the description that's there now could easily be moved to the
>  > overview page instead.
>
> ...but is that such a good idea ? Note that I'v had my own projects on
> sf.net, which I deliberately moved elsewhere because I found the service
> offered by sf.net to be suboptimal. In this perspective I'm wondering
> why one should add more dependencies to the sf.net infrastructure,
> instead of rolling your own solution.
> The more you are independent from sf.net the easier it will be for
> you to migrate the project elsewhere when you decide to.
> Please take this with a grain of salt. It's just my observation. YMMV.

The problem I was trying to solve is that the change to the
SourceForge project description isn't reflected in the xmlroff web
site.

The answer might be to not automate it, either because it's more
trouble than it's worth or because it ties xmlroff too closely to SF.

Of course, there's still the xmlroff README file and documentation
files that also need to be updated, so it probably is a minor saving
to be able to automatically update the xmlroff web site.

If I was in the habit of updating the description once a week (which
I'm not), then I would look to ways to update all descriptions of
xmlroff from a single source.  Right now, that looks like too much
effort, so I guess I'll update the xmlroff web site the old-fashioned
way.

Regards,


Tony.