Re: Doubts and Ideas
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On 05/30/2007 11:03 AM, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:00:38PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>> The current system was implemented by Josip recently, and is a big
>> improvement over the previous state:
>
> ...the previous state being that a vendor mails assorted bits of information
> to a mail address, and then a human editor *must* take their input apart
> weed out the garbage, and rewrite data into WML syntax.
>
> That was just painful. It needed to be fixed years ago, but nobody ever
> got a round tuit. :/
>
>> On <http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding-form>, CD vendors fill out
>> the form, the results are sent to cdvendors@d.o in a standard format.
>
> This format is standardized, but not WML. Hey, why didn't anyone tell me
> that I should do that, it could be done fairly easily :)
>
>> This means that we have to copy & paste the entries into the
>> webwml/english/CD/vendors.CD file in CVS, *manually* sort the list,
>
> This manual sorting bugs me. We should definitely be able to throw
> new entries at the bottom of the list, and have WML sort them for us.
>
> Let's implement the equivalent of mirror/Mirrors.masterlist for CD vendors?
I would vote for it, seems to be similar.
> I seem to recall *some* ancient reason against it, but I can't remember
> which.
Maybe it will popup again. :-)
Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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