[Open-graphics] draft news 21 - volunteer requested for small job

[Josephblack]

On 13/07/07, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:08:40 +1200
> Josephblack <josephhenryblack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > we should really get our draft (number 21), listed as official, as
> > there is going to be another draft up hopefully soon.
> >
> > Only one thing is missing.. we need a volunteer to color the quotations.
> > http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OGPN21
>
>
> I had a quick look, what struck me is that we had a lot
> of small issues pointed out that nobody is really interested in.
> e.g.:
>
> ---
> When you try to download the file, the PHP script does an "svn update" on the .tex files and then checks the date stamps to determine whether or not to update the PDF files and does so only when the tex file has changed.snip

> Nobody but the people managing the system or working on the documentation
> are interested on how the system updates the pdfs. Even less people
> are interested in that we had a potentialy DoSable bug in it.
>
> We should keep these small fry out of the news letters, they are
> well enough documented in the mailinglist archives.
>
>                         Attila Kinali

fair enough. I had wanted to build trust in the pdf downloads. Well,
it is mostly removed, along with a few others. And yes, It is an
improvement.
thanks

jb