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@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Compiling status reports - best practices
0) Timeline (relative to submission deadline) 0) Timeline (relative to submission deadline)
-1 month First call for reports -1 month First call for reports - that will be January 1st, April 1st,
July 1st, and October 1st
-2 weeks Reminder -2 weeks Reminder
-1 week Reminder, and follow up with teams and individuals we expect to -1 week Reminder, and follow up with teams and individuals we expect to
submit reports submit reports
@ -55,16 +56,22 @@ deadline Follow up on missing reports
if at all possible. if at all possible.
4) Building the report: 4) Building the report:
- Fold the reports into a work-in-progress draft as they are coming in (see - Review and merge pull requests as they are coming in
point 5) for putting the report together). Commit the result and hook the - Review and merge reports submitted via email
draft into the build, so you can (almost) immediately provide the - While the reports are being updated, other doc-committers (wblock,
submitters a preview of their entries. This is also a good excuse to do
a acknowledgement on the receipt.
- While the report draft is kept updated, other doc-committers (wblock,
pluknet, and bjk, for example) may review the individual entries and pluknet, and bjk, for example) may review the individual entries and
propose fixes. propose fixes.
- Concatenate the reports into a draft, and add categories, such as
"# FreeBSD Team Reports #" or "# Projects #'. Consult md2docbook.py
source for the list of recognized tags
- Use md2docbook.py to convert from the Markdown draft to DocBook: - Use md2docbook.py to convert from the Markdown draft to DocBook:
https://github.com/trasz/md2docbook https://github.com/trasz/md2docbook. Copy the generated DocBook draft
to en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-XXXX-YY-XXXX-ZZ.xml,
add it to the list in en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/Makefile,
run "make", and review the generated HTML file,
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-XXXX-YY-XXXX-ZZ.html.
Adjust the Markdown source and regenerate until you are happy with
the result.
- Tidy up the draft - tidy(1) may be used to get it well-formatted. Usually - Tidy up the draft - tidy(1) may be used to get it well-formatted. Usually
<url>s without a description are missing the closing "/>" which is the cause <url>s without a description are missing the closing "/>" which is the cause
for most of the errors you will encounter. Sometimes other closing tags are for most of the errors you will encounter. Sometimes other closing tags are