Re: [Tools-team] Auto-generating tool entries

Hi Alex,

On Thursday,  9 Sep 2004, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> 
> I am glad we agree in principle, but I am not sure how to interpret 
> the above with regard to what should be done before we sent the 
> announcement.
> 
> I would like to auto-generate the pages _before_ the announcement is 
> out. I am happy to give you XML sources, the script, and/or the HTML 
> output if you do not have time to do it now. You will change 
> everything later if needed, but I think it would benefit us to have 
> these generated pages for the first announcement (even if we 
> completely change the design later).

As I don't feel that I see clearly what we won't, my intention has
been to do this by hand till it becomes clearer.

> Do you think we should generate said pages now? If yes, do you have 
> cycles and desire to do that? 

Cycles I could find, but doing it without knowing where we want to go
doesn't necessarily make sense to me :-)  I find that working manually
with pages often helps me think about how to make them come out good
- then suddenly at some point I know that I'm ready to script their
generation.

> If you want the pages, but do not have 
> the cycles or desire, would you mind accepting temporary scripts/HTML 
> from me (I can make HTML look similar to what you currently have on 
> some of the tools pages)?

Not sure I see the benefit, but if you have a burning desire to do
something, the least I can do is to look at the result :-)
I'll continue tweaking the pages manually - there are a few things I've
put on one or two of the pages which I want to put on all before we 
'go live' .

	Henrik

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