Re: Web site news to move to Haunt

[ng0]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> The goal is to manage news using Haunt, and to have a page to display
>> them on the web site, something nicer and more flexible than this:
>>
>>   https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=guix
>>
>> And I already enjoy Haunt!  :-)
>
> I’m done!

Great work, thanks!

> Please visit the news pages and report anything wrong!  Also, please
> test the feed.xml file; currently IceCat reports that it “does not
> appear to have any style information associated with it”, and thus
> doesn’t display it nicely.  Maybe Haunt omits to emit (ah ha!) the
> doctype thingie?

For me the feed.xml works (without librejs) with latest icecat.

> Because Savannah’s feeds only include the 20 newest entries¹, Assaf
> Gordon, who works on Savannah, kindly exported the raw Guix news
> database for me (54 entries).
>
> The database contains the input markup, not the XML that appears in the
> feed.  Of course the markup is nothing like Markdown, CommonMark, etc.
>
> So I considered writing a parser in Scheme, but that turned out to be
> trickier than I thought, so I turned back to running Savane’s own parser
> (PHP!).  Since I don’t have PHP on Guix, I ran it on another machine
> where it’s installed: PHP as a service.  And since I couldn’t run all of
> Savane, I just hacked together ‘markup.php’ (attached).  High-quality
> work.
>
> And then I reused the atom-parsing code that used to be in our (www)
> module to get the damn entries and emit them as SXML for Haunt (file
> attached).  Phewww.
>
> I think we should do the same for Guile real soon.
>
> Anyway, big thanks to Assaf!
>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2016-10/msg00017.html
>
>
>

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