www/server/standards README.webmastering.html

[Yavor Doganov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Yavor Doganov <yavor>   08/07/12 20:00:56

Modified files:
        server/standards: README.webmastering.html 

Log message:
        (polnews): Update to reflect reality; translations are no longer
        handled by the same job.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.69&r2=1.70

Patches:
Index: README.webmastering.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html,v
retrieving revision 1.69
retrieving revision 1.70
diff -u -b -r1.69 -r1.70
--- README.webmastering.html    25 Jun 2008 19:31:34 -0000      1.69
+++ README.webmastering.html    12 Jul 2008 20:00:31 -0000      1.70
@@ -643,18 +643,23 @@
 
 <h4 id="polnews">Adding news</h4>
 
-<p>News items are used in 4 ways on the GNU website:
+<p>News items are used in several ways on the GNU website:
 </p>
 
 <ul>
-    <li>to make the <a href="/server/whatsnew.html">/server/whatsnew.html</a> 
page</li>
-    <li>to make the <a href="/rss/whatsnew.rss">GNU What's New RSS</a> 
feed</li>
+    <li>to make the <tt>/server/whatsnew.include</tt> page (which gets
+    included into <a href="/server/whatsnew.html">
+    /server/whatsnew.html</a>)</li>
+    <li>to make the <a href="/rss/whatsnew.rss">GNU What's New RSS</a>
+    feed</li>
     <li>sometimes to make GNUs Flashes on the homepage</li>
-    <li>all of the above are available in many languages</li>
+    <li>all of the above available in other languages via
+    the <a href="/software/trans-coord/manual/gnun/html_node/GNU-News.html">
+    special rules</a> in GNUnited Nations</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>Changes to news must be made by adding a new entry to the
-    /server/whatsnew.txt file.</p>
+   <tt>/server/whatsnew.txt</tt> file.</p>
 
 <p>The format of the whatsnew.txt file is this:</p>
 
@@ -687,19 +692,20 @@
 Added a &lt;a href="/home.ru.html"&gt;Russian translation&lt;/a&gt; of the 
main page.
 </pre>
 
-<p>Please do not use entities like &eacute; or &ouml;&mdash;they are
-   not supported and the build will fail.</p>
-
-<p>Once the /server/whatsnew.txt file has been updated there is no
-    need to do anything. The news files are remade every hour by a
-    cronjob running on address@hidden
+<p>Please do not use characters like &eacute; or &ouml;&mdash;they are
+   not supported and the build will fail.  Writing them as HTML
+   entities will result in failure, too.</p>
+
+<p>Once the <tt>/server/whatsnew.txt</tt> file has been updated there
+   is no need to do anything.  The news files are remade every hour by
+   a cronjob running on address@hidden  If something goes
+   wrong, a log of from the build should always be sent to
+   the <tt>address@hidden</tt> mailing list; please check
+   the web archives if nobody steps up to rectify the problem.
 </p>
 
 <p>The cronjob rebuilds the news according to the Makefile specified
     in /rss/Makefile. The target <code>gnunews</code> is used.</p>
-
-<p>The cronjob ensures that the internationalized versions are
-    maintained correctly.
 </p>
 
 
@@ -1231,7 +1237,7 @@
 
   <p>Updated:
      <!-- timestamp start -->
-     $Date: 2008/06/25 19:31:34 $
+     $Date: 2008/07/12 20:00:31 $
      <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
   </div>