Re: RFV: Help authoring KC Debian Hurd

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:53:07AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:

> Do you mean you want to mirror the Cousins at gnu.org? That would be very
> interesting, especially since the project is designed to allow mirrors to
> specify their own layout. So, theoretically, a cron job could download the
> (pseudo) XML, and compile it into regular gnu.org pages.

That sounds lovely.  I'll flag this as a TODO for me.  I'm starting to 
thump on the hurd pages pretty shortly.  We have an email list 
address@hidden (Mailman controlled if you need more email, archived if 
not <grin>) so I'll start to work with those folks on this.

> I'd be willing to do this myself but I'd need several things:
> 
> *) rsync access and a lot of disk space, so I could quickly upload new pages
> to the site

I can do this.  Do you prefer kerberized rsh or ssh for the underlying 
protocol?

Note that if you keep stuff in a CVS repository, I can rsync that off of 
you and do updates from that.

> *) information on the gnu.org layout style, so I could compile the pages
> properly.

I don't mind doing this if you're too busy, but otherwise I'll get the 
information to you a touch later.

> *) I'd rather mirror the entire project as a whole, because this would be
> easiest for me, as opposed to just KC Debian Hurd. If that's not possible,
> then it would probably be best to set up the cron job at gnu.org to copy
> only the texts desired.

Well, I'm only really interested in the Hurd stuff.  I'm trying to avoid 
linking off to other sites, 'cause I don't always notice links going away.

> *) one day the cron job might become necessary anyway, if I run out of time
> to do it by hand each time.

cron is good...  Sweet, sweet cron (Appropriate Homer Simpson noise...)

> Is any of this similar to what you had in mind?

Yup!

> BTW: any interest in writing thread summaries? It's fun and healthy!

Not at all, but thanks for the offer! =)

Seriously, I'm swamped with what I've taken on so far, but I'd be really 
excited to get this type of information up there.

I'll email you soon.

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