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!

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?

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