[Project-managers] More revisions to projDesc.xml

[Lou Hafer]

Folks,

     Back in November 2014 I emailed you to tell you about changes to
projDesc.xml (email copied below for reference). As part of the ongoing 
(never ending?) effort to bring up a new web site, we're about to make a 
few more changes. The previous changes cleaned up the automated 
generation of the standard project page for each project. This set of 
changes will allow us to automatically generate the main Projects page,
http://www.coin-or.org/projects.

     As a Project Manager, the change that might interest you is that 
the short (one or two sentence) description of your project on the 
Projects page will now be part of projDesc.xml and under your control.

     We have some final testing to do in the context of the new web 
site. I'll send a brief email when I commit the modified projDesc.xml files.

     As mentioned in the earlier email, you really do need a 
projDesc.xml file for your project or it will become invisible. If you 
have questions or objections, please let me know.

                                       Thanks,
                                                Lou

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Subject: [Project-managers] Revisions to projDesc.xml
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:55:24 -0800
From: Lou Hafer <lou at cs.sfu.ca>
To: COIN PM Mail List <project-managers at list.coin-or.org>

Folks,

     I've just finished some major revisions to the XML / XSL machinery
that's used to generate the standard project page from projDesc.xml.
With some trepidation, I'm going to claim that it's much better behaved.
As collateral damage, I've updated nearly all the projDesc.xml files so
that they will validate against the revised XML schema for projDesc.xml,
and I've groomed the data.

     So, please follow the link from the main Projects page
(http://coin-or.org/projects) to the standard project page for your
project and check to see that I haven't done any damage. After multiple
passes to lay eyeballs on 50 some files, I'm going a bit blind  :-)  If
I've accidentally damaged the data while grooming, my apologies. If you
run across something that's not fixable within the present schema,
please let me know.

     If your project doesn't have a projDesc.xml file, well, you might
want to think seriously about creating one. Now that these files all
conform to the schema, we can begin to think about automatically
generating the main Projects page by processing the individual
projDesc.xml files. If you don't have one, your project will become
invisible. If all this is completely new to you, check
https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/pm-svn-server#projDesc.xml

     For those of you without a projDesc.xml file, or if you want to see
the schema and the XSL that generates the standard project page, look in
the Coin-Web repository, in the directory
https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CoinWeb/trunk/projects
The files of interest are:
   projDesc.xml       a template for you to fill in
   autoGen.xsl        XSL to transform projDesc.xml to html
   autoGen.xsd        XML schema

                                                 Lou
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