[Project-managers] Reminder: PLEASE check in your project descriptions

[Ted Ralphs]

Hi all,

As of now, most project managers still have not checked in their project 
XML pages. I would like to kindly ask if you could either take care of 
this small chore sometime in the next few days (it should take about 
5-10 minutes) or else let us know that you would prefer that we do it 
for you. While we would prefer that you do it, so that the page contains 
the information you want it to, we can help in case you just don't want 
to be bothered with it. However, we do need to know your preference and 
we'd like to have a page for every project up soon. Thanks for your help 
with this.

Cheers,

Ted

For your convenience, here is the text of the original e-mail:

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At long last, we have put in place a mechanism for automatic generation 
of project information pages. The idea is that each project manager will 
create and maintain an XML file containing basic project information. 
This XML file will be posted to the Web server and rendered by a parser 
that will display each project's info in a standard format. The 
procedure for getting your page up is very simple:

1. Edit the attached XML file, which has extensive comments to explain 
where to put each piece of information. XML is very similar to HTML, but 
with tags that can be customized. If you've ever looked at HTML, this 
should be very familiar. If not, please feel free to ask questions.

2. After you are done editing the file, add it to the conf/ directory of 
your project's repository and commit it. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you 
check it in with exactly the same name as it has now, i.e., you should 
execute exactly the following commands from the directory where the 
projDesc.xml file has been saved:

cp projDesc.xml ProjRoot/conf/
cd ProjRoot/conf/
svn add projDesc.xml
svn commit -m "Adding XML file to repository"

where ProjRoot is the root directory of your project. If you don't 
happen to have the conf directory checked out and you want to get just 
that directory without checking out the entire repository, just do

svn checkout https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/ProjName/conf

where ProjName is the name of your project. This will check out just the 
conf/ directory. After the projDesc.xml file is checked into your 
repository, an automatic script will copy it to the appropriate 
directory on the Web server and rename it so that it will be accessible 
from the address

http://www.coin-or.org/projects/ProjName.xml

where "ProjName" is again the actual name of your project. For example, see

https://projects.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/browser/conf/projDesc.xml

for SYMPHONY's XML file. The comments have been stripped out so you can 
see what a minimal file looks like. To see how the file displays, you 
can go to

http://www.coin-or.org/projects/SYMPHONY.xml

We'd like to have XML files for all the projects up in the next couple 
of weeks. Please feel free to ask as many questions as you need to. If 
there are questions you think might be relevant to other PMs, please 
also post them to the list, so that everyone can benefit from the 
answers. We will also be adding these instruction to the CoinHelp wiki.

-- 
Dr. Ted Ralphs
Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
(610)758-4784
tkralphs at lehigh.edu
www.lehigh.edu/~tkr2
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