Where does the content of release report come from?

[Danxue Huang]

Dr. Joel,

I agree it would be helpful to write an outline! I would do it to show the
intended goal.

Best,
Dannie

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:52 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 10:46 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>> On 24/5/18 3:31 pm, Danxue Huang wrote:
>> > Hi Dr. Joel and Chris,
>> >
>> > How is this pdf file generated (see attacked link please)? Is it
>> generated by
>> > Trac automatically? Or should I generate it manually?
>> >
>> > https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/releases/4.11/4.11.2/
>> rtems-4.11.2-release-notes.pdf
>> >
>>
>> The release script I gave you invokes the command 'wkhtmltopdf'. This
>> command
>> takes as an argument the Trac webpage, for example:
>>
>>  https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Release/4.11/4.11.2
>>
>> The command 'wkhtmltopdf' is like a browser but it creates a PDF as output
>> rather than to a screen. The release scripts creates a coverpage and
>> joins the
>> PDF from the Trac Release page to create the release notes.
>>
>> Please note, the way the release notes are currently done is not what
>> this GSoC
>> is about. The task for this GSoC is to write Python code to extract the
>> needed
>> information from Trac's RSS feed. I will send you some details off list
>> and we
>> can discuss this some more next week in our meeting, which I am looking
>> forward too.
>>
>
> I suggested looking at the current release notes only as a guide as to
> what generally should be in them. Agreed this is a fetch RSS and write
> something better.
>
> I suggested in irc yesterday that having an outline to show the intended
> goal would be nice. Perhaps even a mock up of the result with limited
> content.
>
> Personally, I find writing without an outline hard so that may be my style
> showing.
>
>
>> Chris
>>
>
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