Re: [PATCH,WWWDOCS] htdocs: add an Atom feed for GCC news

[Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>]

Hi!

On 2022-12-23T10:50:13+0100, "Jose E. Marchesi via Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> This patch adds an Atom feed for GCC news, which can then be easily
> aggregated in other sites, such as the GNU planet
> (https://planet.gnu.org).
>
> The feed lives in a file news.xml, and this patch initializes it with
> the latest entry in News as an example.

I absolutely agree that providing such an RSS feed is a good thing
(..., and that we generally should make better use of our News section,
and other "PR"...) -- but I'm less convinced by the prospect of manually
editing the RSS 'news.xml' file, duplicating in a (potentially) different
format what we've got in the HTML News section.  :-|

Ideally, there'd be some simple files for News items (Markdown, or
similar), which are then converted into HTML News as well as RSS feed.
Obviously, there needs to be some consensus on what to use, and somebody
needs to set up the corresponding machinery...

Or do others think that manual 'news.xml' maintenance is not so bad (for
now)?


Grüße
 Thomas


> ---
>  htdocs/index.html |  9 ++++++++-
>  htdocs/news.xml   | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 htdocs/news.xml
>
> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html
> index e91fadf1..2ddee6f6 100644
> --- a/htdocs/index.html
> +++ b/htdocs/index.html
> @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
>  <meta name="google-site-verification" content="FUv_3eEIkimd6LAoWned4TPMqmKKQmw3aA2_PBJ5SAY">
>  <title>GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection</title>
>  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc.css">
> +<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
> +      title="News about the GNU Compiler Collection"
> +      href="news.xml"/>
>  </head>
>
>  <set-var navigation>
> @@ -48,7 +51,11 @@ mission statement</a>.</p>
>
>  <!-- Note: We usually want to rotate news to the "old news" page when
>       it's more than 12 months old or the News pane on this page has
> -     become longer than the parallel one, whatever happens first.
> +     become longer than the parallel one, whatever happens first.
> +
> +     Note: There is an Atom feed in news.xml, which is aggregated by
> +     some news aggregators and "planets".  It is likely you want to
> +     add a new item there with the good news.
>  -->
>
>  <td class="news border0">
> diff --git a/htdocs/news.xml b/htdocs/news.xml
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..bebcaa66
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/htdocs/news.xml
> @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> +
> +<rss version="2.0">
> +  <channel>
> +    <title>News about the GNU Compiler Collection</title>
> +    <link>https://gcc.gnu.org</link>
> +    <description>
> +      The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++,
> +      Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, as well as libraries for
> +      these languages (libstdc++,...). GCC was originally written as
> +      the compiler for the GNU operating system. The GNU system was
> +      developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that it
> +      respects the user's freedom.
> +    </description>
> +
> +    <item>
> +      <title>GCC BPF in Compiler Explorer</title>
> +      <link>https://godbolt.org</link>
> +      <description>
> +        Support for a nightly build of the bpf-unknown-none-gcc
> +        compiler has been contributed to Compiler Explorer (aka
> +        godbolt.org) by Marc Poulhiès
> +      </description>
> +      <pubDate>Fri, 23 December 2022 11:00:00 CET</pubDate>
> +    </item>
> +
> +  </channel>
> +</rss>
> --
> 2.30.2
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