Re: Web site news to move to Haunt

[Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:33:38 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Hello Guix!
> 
> ludo@gnu.org (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!

Looks great!

> 
> 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?

IceCat reported the missing style for me on the first visit, but then
on a second visit seemed to apply some of its own default styling?
IDK.  I was able to import it into my RSS reader.

> 
> 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.

Sounds like fun ;)

`~Eric