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Bjorn asked me to report this as a bug to track down: > I just created VE's project-info file. I have questions about it. > > When I go to > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/roadmap/project.php?project=tools.ve > * The mailing list and newsgroup sections on that page have no links > on them. It just lists the mailing list and the newsgroup names > and that is it. I have the maillist and newsgroup files in the > project-info directory but it isn't using them to describe them. > Is this page not showing this info?
Created attachment 40496 [details] Picture from project info page Here's a picture of the page. The entries for the newsgroup and mailing lists are not links. They are simply text. I would of expected a link to something for these.
(In reply to comment #1) > I would of expected a link to something for these. Good idea. The PHP code for that page is in the /cvsroot/org.eclipse repository under www/projects/roadmap/project.php. If you attach a patch that adds some relevant links, I'd be happy to apply it.
I took a look but there is a problem. The project info class and the project-info.xml format is wrong for mailing list and news groups. Here is the format currently: <!-- - Each Eclipse project has one or more newsgroups. - Some projects also have a separate web page describing these lists - while others rely on the main Eclipse newsgroups page. - - <newsgroups url="..."> <newsgroup name="..."/> ... </newsgroups> - The url is optional; if absent, the url will default to the Eclipse - newsgroups page. Multiple <newsgroups>s are allowed. --> <newsgroups> <newsgroup name="eclipse.tools.ve"/> </newsgroups> The problem here is that the url should not be on "newsgroup" element. It should be on each newsgroup element. Each newsgroup has a different url. If you don't specify a url it uses a default url based upon the first newsgroup. The same problem exists on mailing lists.
The url on the <newsgroups> element is for a summary web page (i.e., "Some projects also have a separate web page describing these lists"). The urls for each newsgroup are the same pattern for each newsgroup news://news.eclipse.org/xxxx.xxxx (or http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.xxxx.xxxxx/maillist.html if you want the web page version) and thus it should be easy to generate from just the newsgroup name.
Is there anything left to do here?
closing
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