cvs commit: www/en index.xsl www/en/security Makefile errata-rss.xsl errata.rss www/share/sgml libcommon.xsl

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2008.06.21 03:07:09 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:17:53 -0700, Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >Murray Stokely wrote:
> >> Thanks for adding this.  It would be even more useful if this and the
> >> security advisory RSS feed included the text of those advisories
> >> rather than just the title.  Right now they are stored as text files
> >> on another host, but it would be great if we could work with security
> >> team to store these in a format more amenable to syndication by our
> >> RSS feeds.  CCing Colin in case he has any thoughts on this, and
> >> assuming he doesn't read www commit messages. =)
> >
> > What would we get by putting the complete advisory text into the RSS
> > feeds except a waste of bandwidth?  I can understand adding some more
> > information (say, the Topic), but throwing in everything seems a bit
> > extreme.
> 
> It's about as extreme as adding the full text of blog posts in RSS feeds
> all over the world.  Some people may find it useful, others may find it
> a waste of bandwidth.
> 
> How about adding *two* RSS feeds: a 'short' one, with the titles and a
> link to the real advisory, and a 'long' one with the full text?

Note that including this is not as easy as it may sound.  You need to
somehow automatically get the advisory text and include the
appropriate parts.  Copy/paste of anything but the title is not an
option.  The advisories are not available to the doc build on
www.FreeBSD.org... this may change at some point but there are no
current plans to do so.

Some years ago I made a parser to convert advisories into XML so you
can extract parts (different sections etc) as needed.  It works but
it's not pretty...

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen