Re: have new packages listed on the debian landing page
at bottom :-
On 07/05/2017, Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Shirish
>
> El 06/05/17 a las 22:32, shirish शिरीष escribió:
> [...]
>
>>
>>> We intent to publish a DPN in May, so you can download the WIP file:
>>>
>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/dpn.git/tree/en/2017/02/index.wml
>>>
>>
>> I dunno wml or even how to parse wml files .
>
> wml is basically html+scripts (in Perl).
>
> For our case, the paragraph about "New and noteworthy packages" is in
> plain html. See, for example:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/dpn.git/tree/en/2015/04/index.wml
>
> (search for "noteworthy") to see the format.
>
> But even if you send the info in plain text, I can do the formatting
> for the first issues, no problem.
>
> I am hoping that our
>> current browsers, i.e. firefox or/and chromum are good enough to see
>> wml, am less sure how to generate those pages. I did have a look at
>> the wiki page but couldn't find any content about wml except a page
>> which was in Romania
>> https://wiki.debian.org/ro/L10n/Romanian/Webwml which probably talks
>> about the same thing (but in Romania :( )
>>
>
> The wml files are copied from the publicity repository to the Debian
> website repository prior to publishing. Once the wml file is its
> correct folder, typing "make" in a terminal will create the HTML files
> corresponding to the wml files in that folder.
>
> So, think of wml as "source code", and the "HTML files" as our
> "compiled code", that is understandable for the web browser.
>
> All this is explained in this section of the website:
> https://www.debian.org/devel/website/
>
> But believe me, you don't need to read all those documents in order to
> contribute to the DPN.
>
> Just writing the corresponding paragraph, in plain text or HTML, and
> sending it to the debian-publicity@lists.debian.org is enough to start.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Laura Arjona Reina
> https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
>
Dear Laura,
I missed your intent to publish in May the first time around. Having
seen that, I asked today on unix.stackexchange.com about if there is a
way to have a search which will list packages from last 3 months.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363616/is-there-a-way-to-list-packages-from-date-when-they-entered-debian-archive/363666#363666
While Stephen responded, the issue is probably at zsh's end as it says
bad substitution. Hopefully Stephen can help me and the script works
in due course.
Do you have some kind of timeline/dead-line when you want the DPN to
be published so I know till when I am supposed to give you something.
At my end, it's been summer and heavy load-shedding (i.e. no
electricity) and seems would be there for few days still hence
communication might be an issue but I hope to contribute something
before whatever hard or soft dead-line you give/share.
Looking forward to know.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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