On 08/02/2008, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
The problem isn't the "small amount of initial effort". Rather, it is that important part of the web site content can only be updated right now by a very few people. For example, here is the section of the home page that reports "News":
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I suppose if you understand PHP then this is crystal clear.
I've added entries to a feed without reading a line of PHP.
But I don't, so will have to use SVN blame to see who wrote this, get them to add a comment pointing to some documentation on how to add/update the news items,
The documentation is at: http://beta.boost.org/development/website_updating.html#Feeds I'll go through the site and add appropriate comments. You wouldn't need to use SVN blame - an email to a mailing list would be enough.
then cross my fingers hoping it really just does involve HTML that I can edit with my trusty old HTML editor or maybe my shinny new HTML editor.
The entries are written in quickbook. Which is really easy to pick up. Daniel