On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:12:51AM -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
> I assume that people's comments were about all the port pages in general
> and not the mac68k page specifically, right?  ;-)

Yup, just picked mac68k for the example since it had instances of all
the nits I was aiming to pick. :)
 
> there is 1 advantage to not having the news auto-generated, and that is
> that we are currently keeping the more relevant news items rather than
> having them all scroll off.  with the mac68k port, we get a new -current
> snapshot every week or so.

a) we could add the ability to specify what entries get put on the
   front page (though this adds another thing to keep track of -
   probably not a good idea)

b) add some extra magic to only allow one of each a -current and
   prerelease snapshot entry on the front page at a single time
   (treating them as regular entries)

> perhaps we need a "latest snapshot" permanent news item or
> something like that?

This would be c.  This all could get muddled when we might have e.g.
-current, 1.5.1_BLAH and 1.6_BLAH snapshots available at one time.

I'd probably lean towards a mixture.  Permanent entries are a bad
idea for ports with a snapshot from way way back.  One entry for
each 'type' is a good idea, and then let it get pushed down like
the rest.  Specifying is probably a necessary option, though I'd
probably want something more like 'forcing'.

By forcing I mean, you could add something to the file (something as
dumb as FORCE before the entry title would work) which would say, "I
want this on the front page no matter what" and when one regens, we
would spout out "'nyuck nyuck' entry forced to front page - displaces
'why I oughta' entry".

Avoiding a list-like mechanism regarding port page news entries isn't
really possible.  If you don't know the 'correct' block-inline
solution (first off, pat yourself on the back for having a sexier
knowledge-base than me), I'll just say with the current cut-n-paste
and modify way of doing this, mixing in correct HTML to the formula
would aggravate us all greatly. ;)

> on the whole, i like it.  the directory portion does look vaguely
> unbalanced as there are headings for everything except for the FAQ
> pointers.

Definitely, I just had trouble coming up with a category name. ;)

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