www/server/standards README.webmastering.html

[Jason Self]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Jason Self <jxself>     11/03/25 22:50:08

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

Log message:
        Updating README.webmastering.html with information on the new News 
process

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.119&r2=1.120

Patches:
Index: README.webmastering.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/server/standards/README.webmastering.html,v
retrieving revision 1.119
retrieving revision 1.120
diff -u -b -r1.119 -r1.120
--- README.webmastering.html    14 Feb 2011 23:58:31 -0000      1.119
+++ README.webmastering.html    25 Mar 2011 22:49:32 -0000      1.120
@@ -549,62 +549,18 @@
 
 <h4 id="polnews">Adding news: whatsnew</h4>
 
-<p>News items are posted by adding a new entry to the top of the
-<tt>/server/whatsnew.txt</tt> file (newest first).  The format of this
-file is as follows:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>an optional asterisk&mdash;if present this means the item should be a
-    GNUs Flash;</li>
-<li>the date of the news item;</li>
-<li>a newline;</li>
-<li>the HTML text of the news item, possibly spanning many lines;</li>
-<li>a blank line to end the entry.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Here are two example entries, the first a GNUs Flash:</p>
-
-<pre>
-* 19 November 2004
-&lt;a href="/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html"&gt;FSF is currently seeking a
-full-time Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer&lt;/a&gt;
-
-14 September 2004
-Added Richard Stallman's new article:
-&lt;a href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html"&gt;Fighting Software
- Patents - Singly and Together&lt;/a&gt;, with a link from the
-&lt;a 
href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#LicensingFreeSoftware"&gt;Philosophy&lt;/a&gt;
 page.
-</pre>
-
-<p>These news items are used in several ways:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<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>optionally to make GNUs Flashes on the home page;</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>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 edited there is
-no need to do anything more.  The news files are remade every hour by a
-cron job 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; check the web archives
-and/or email www-discuss if you notice a problem is going unfixed.</p>
-
-<p>The cron job rebuilds the news according to the Makefile specified
-in /rss/Makefile. The target <code>gnunews</code> is used.</p>
-
+<p>News items are posted by adding a new "News" entry to the 
+<a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www";>www project on 
+Savannah</a>.
+
+<p>Once that is done there is no need to do anything more.  The News 
+item will eventually appear on <a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>
+http://planet.gnu.org</a>. A cron job run by the Chief Webmaster 
+will trigger <a href="/server/source/source.html>planetrss.pl</a> 
+to pull new items from the RSS feed and add them to 
+<a href="/planetfeeds.html">/planetfeeds.html</a>  
+where they are then included in home.html via an SSI Include 
+directive. Email www-discuss if something seems to be wrong.</p>
 
 <h3 id="pollinking">Linking policies</h3>
 
@@ -1183,7 +1139,7 @@
 
 <p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/02/14 23:58:31 $
+$Date: 2011/03/25 22:49:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>