Hi Sandra,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> Gerald, do we have a policy on when to rotate the News items on the main
> GCC web page to the "Older news" page? Joseph asked me to post a patch
> for adding a news item for the proposed new C-SKY port, but the items
> that are there now seem somewhat bit-rotten (e.g., referring to last
> year's Cauldron in the future tense and no link for this year's event)
that is a good question and also a fair observation that I've fallen
behind on rotating the news recently.
Let me try to address two birds with one stone, by means of the patch
below which (a) adds a note on rotating news to index.html and (b) does
a bit of rotation, and which I just applied.
Hope this makes sense and addresses your question?
(Modulo my typo.</shame target="me">)
> independently of anything to do with C-SKY. Of course I can fix that
> too (with a separate patch), given some hint about whether/how much
> pruning is considered appropriate.
That would be lovely, thank you!
Gerald
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1088
diff -u -r1.1088 index.html
--- index.html 26 Jul 2018 10:40:16 -0000 1.1088
+++ index.html 29 Jul 2018 22:23:29 -0000
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
<table><tr>
+<!-- Note: We usually want to rotate news to the "old news" page when
+ it's more than 12 months old or the News pane on this page has
+ become longer than the paralle one, whatever happens first.
+-->
+
<td class="news" valign="top">
<h2 id="news">News</h2>
<dl>
@@ -79,33 +84,6 @@
<span class="date">[2017-05-24]</span></dt>
<dd>...instead of bzip2.</dd>
-<dt><span><a href="gcc-7/">GCC 7.1</a> released</span>
- <span class="date">[2017-05-02]</span></dt>
- <dd></dd>
-
-<dt><span>GNU Toolchain Fund</span>
- <span class="date">[2017-03-09]</span></dt>
- <dd>A fund under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation
specifically to benefit the components of the GNU Toolchain (GCC, GDB, GLIBC,
Binutils, etc.) now <a
href="https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-toolchain-now-accepting-donations-with-the-support-of-the-free-software-foundation";>accepting
donations</a>.</dd>
-
-<dt><span>RISC-V support</span>
- <span class="date">[2017-02-02]</span></dt>
- <dd>Support for the <a href="https://riscv.org";>RISC-V ISA</a> was added,
contributed by Palmer Dabbelt and Andrew Waterman.</dd>
-
-<dt><span>BRIG/HSAIL (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Intermediate
Language) front end added</span>
- <span class="date">[2017-02-01]</span></dt>
- <dd><a href="http://www.hsafoundation.com/";> Heterogeneous Systems
- Architecture 1.0</a> BRIG (HSAIL)
- <a href="gcc-7/changes.html#brig">front end was added to GCC</a>,
- enabling HSAIL finalization for gcc-supported
- targets. The code was developed by
- <a href="http://parmance.com";>Parmance</a> with sponsorship from
- <a href="https://www.generalprocessortech.com";>General Processor
Technologies</a>.</dd>
-
-<dt><span>Fuchsia OS support</span>
- <span class="date">[2017-01-10]</span></dt>
- <dd><a href="https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/";>Fuchsia OS</a>
- support was added to GCC, contributed by Google.</dd>
-
</dl>
<div>
Index: news.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/news.html,v
retrieving revision 1.161
diff -u -r1.161 news.html
--- news.html 2 Jun 2018 21:16:10 -0000 1.161
+++ news.html 29 Jul 2018 22:23:29 -0000
@@ -15,6 +15,33 @@
<!-- ATTENTION: This page is for *OLD* news! Latest news goes first. -->
+<dt><span><a href="gcc-7/">GCC 7.1</a> released</span>
+ <span class="date">[2017-05-02]</span></dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+<dt><span>GNU Toolchain Fund</span>
+ <span class="date">[2017-03-09]</span></dt>
+ <dd>A fund under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation
specifically to benefit the components of the GNU Toolchain (GCC, GDB, GLIBC,
Binutils, etc.) now <a
href="https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-toolchain-now-accepting-donations-with-the-support-of-the-free-software-foundation";>accepting
donations</a>.</dd>
+
+<dt><span>RISC-V support</span>
+ <span class="date">[2017-02-02]</span></dt>
+ <dd>Support for the <a href="https://riscv.org";>RISC-V ISA</a> was added,
contributed by Palmer Dabbelt and Andrew Waterman.</dd>
+
+<dt><span>BRIG/HSAIL (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Intermediate
Language) front end added</span>
+ <span class="date">[2017-02-01]</span></dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.hsafoundation.com/";> Heterogeneous Systems
+ Architecture 1.0</a> BRIG (HSAIL)
+ <a href="gcc-7/changes.html#brig">front end was added to GCC</a>,
+ enabling HSAIL finalization for gcc-supported
+ targets. The code was developed by
+ <a href="http://parmance.com";>Parmance</a> with sponsorship from
+ <a href="https://www.generalprocessortech.com";>General Processor
Technologies</a>.</dd>
+
+<dt><span>Fuchsia OS support</span>
+ <span class="date">[2017-01-10]</span></dt>
+ <dd><a href="https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/";>Fuchsia OS</a>
+ support was added to GCC, contributed by Google.</dd>
+
<dt><span><a href="gcc-6/">GCC 6.3</a> released</span>
<span class="date">[2016-12-21]</span></dt>
<dd></dd>
