Re: Proliferating GroupPage practices

Al Gilman wrote:
> 
> Hey, You guys do good work.  The new GL page works.
> 
> The PF home pages are a disaster area.
> 
> I am interested in figuring out if there is a maintenance practice we could
> adopt for the PF home pages that will pick up as much as possible of what
> y'all have done as we can.
> 
> How much of this is compiled, i.e. requires scripts to generate pro-forma
> cross-links?

None of it. All is managed by hand. In a better world, we would have
a harmonized publications process where documents would be stored
in a database and users could view and sort them according to their
wishes, and we could generate that part of the home page.

Today, it's done in emacs (and whatever Wendy uses!).
 
> I am not sure we can get to something that Daniel and I will stick to and
> actually maintain, but we _have_ to do _something_ better.

The WAI home page itself is being revamped. We should indeed
harmonize our efforts.
 
 - Ian

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Received on Thursday, 29 July 1999 09:07:44 UTC