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Re: [Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>] [RFC] DDP and www.debian.org merger



On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:57:30PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Since we've talked about this in IRC, I assume I've answered your
> questions.

The readers of the mailing list might wonder "WTF?!" now, so I'll try
to explain :)

I asked:
| I don't know if we want to move the whole CVS data with a document,
| instead of simply starting over from 1.1; if so, can someone do it
| remotely, or do we need someone with root on cvs.debian.org to mv the
| *,v files manually?

Adam basically said that we shouldn't be moving anything from the old DDP
webpages scheme to the new location, because the old stuff is too static and
too hard to maintain. The SGML documents wouldn't be moved at all, the `good
old' DDP CVS would still be used, and HTML copies would be built from it as
they are now, just in another $PUBLISHDIR.

The index page for DDP documents needs to be implemented with a bit of WML
magic, with .wml and .wmh files. From what I managed to observe in the last
half an hour or so, all we need is some modification of
webwml/english/template/debian/install_manual.wml to something less specific
to install manuals etc, and better adjusted for this purpose, and a few
lines of WML code to invoke the functions which generate the page.

Any comments or even better concrete help would be highly appreciated :)

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