From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199901050327.WAA01413@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] TODO list
In-Reply-To: <3691765F.15B7FF00@alumni.caltech.edu> from "Thomas G. Lockhart"
	at "Jan 5, 1999  2:18: 7 am"
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:27:41 -0500 (EST)
Cc: hal@enteract.com, docs@postgreSQL.org, scrappy@hub.org
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> > > Can you start using CVS for web content? I don't want to step on any
> > > of your edits!
> 
> If it's ok, I'd like to get the ToDo and release notes content into
> sgml, and then have html generated automatically for the web site. Will
> look at setting up my cvs checkout tree to generate new docs and allow
> others (like Bruce) to do so on demand.

I thought the release notes were already sgml.  The TODO list is quite
fluid, and I can't really see how sgml'ing it is going to get us
anything.  I can already generate decent html automatically, and a quick
search/release or sed could convert those html tags to sgml, no?

I maintain it as an ASCII file, and having tags on every item is going
to be a pain.


> 
> No point in putting these things into cvs in two places; we have this
> content in sgml for previous releases already...

I don't see the TODO list in sgml anywhere.

What I could do is to keep maintaining it in ASCII, and generate html
and sgml from that ASCII file.  If you can mark up the todo list in
sgml, I will map the html tags to sgml, and auto-convert to html and
sgml when I change the file.

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