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

[Murray Stokely]

Yea I think having just a subset of the content and a link to the full
advisories would be the way to go.  The titles alone aren't that
useful, and I could see the entire advisories as kind of wasteful.  I
wonder if security team would be amenable to releasing security
advisories in a very simple XML schema which is then output as plain
text, RSS feeds, or pretty html?

                - Murray


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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
>