Dr. Joel, I agree it would be helpful to write an outline! I would do it to show the intended goal.
Best, Dannie On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:52 AM, Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018, 10:46 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > >> On 24/5/18 3:31 pm, Danxue Huang wrote: >> > Hi Dr. Joel and Chris, >> > >> > How is this pdf file generated (see attacked link please)? Is it >> generated by >> > Trac automatically? Or should I generate it manually? >> > >> > https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/releases/4.11/4.11.2/ >> rtems-4.11.2-release-notes.pdf >> > >> >> The release script I gave you invokes the command 'wkhtmltopdf'. This >> command >> takes as an argument the Trac webpage, for example: >> >> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Release/4.11/4.11.2 >> >> The command 'wkhtmltopdf' is like a browser but it creates a PDF as output >> rather than to a screen. The release scripts creates a coverpage and >> joins the >> PDF from the Trac Release page to create the release notes. >> >> Please note, the way the release notes are currently done is not what >> this GSoC >> is about. The task for this GSoC is to write Python code to extract the >> needed >> information from Trac's RSS feed. I will send you some details off list >> and we >> can discuss this some more next week in our meeting, which I am looking >> forward too. >> > > I suggested looking at the current release notes only as a guide as to > what generally should be in them. Agreed this is a fetch RSS and write > something better. > > I suggested in irc yesterday that having an outline to show the intended > goal would be nice. Perhaps even a mock up of the result with limited > content. > > Personally, I find writing without an outline hard so that may be my style > showing. > > >> Chris >> >
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