[rpm-ed] RPM site content

Michael Honeyfield mhoneyfield at orcon.net.nz
Wed Sep 1 01:17:01 EDT 2004


Just wondering what became of my reply?

Mike

RPM-Editor at owlriver.com wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Michael Honeyfield wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi, I have noticed that for sometime the content on the RPM site has 
>>been stale and in need of updating. It recently had some updating, but 
>>is still in a lot of need.
> 
> 
>>If I have come to the wrong person, please forward to the the correct 
>>person : )
> 
> 
> Not at all -- thanks for asking.  I saw your comment on #rpm 
> the backscroll on freenode's server, but you had left channel.
> 
> The site is basically a series of files named: body.txt in a 
> directory tree structure.
> 
> see eg, http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/body.txt
> 
> also present (when a nav sidebar is to be present) is: 
> http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/sidebar.txt which is laid on the 
> left.
> 
> The Up and Home links generate automatically.  Ditto the 
> common header and footer boilerplate.
> 
> I store some additional and unlinked material -- .pdf's and so 
> forth - and link them in, relying on the baseurl.
> 
> There is also the Maximum RPM re-write project, in cvs, and it 
> would welcome updated content as well.
> 
> What did you have in mind?  I'm certainly willing to work with 
> anyone interested in makeing it better.
> 
> -- Russ Herrold
> 
> 
> 


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