[eclipse.org-committers] Changes to the newsgroup and mailing list pages

["Webmaster(Matt Ward)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

This message is to inform all committers of upcoming changes to the 
newsgroup and mailing list pages on the eclipse.org website.  With the 
move to the new design these pages will become more data driven which 
will result in a new option for you all.

At this time the descriptions of the various newsgroups and mailing 
lists are statically set and you must send in a request to us for it to 
be changed.  The update will allow each individual project to change 
it's description paragraph at will.

What will you need to do in order to use this feature? That's easy, in 
the new 'project-info' directory that you have created in the top level 
of your web sites just insert two plain text files named 'newsgroup' and 
'maillist'.  The format of these files is the same and follows the 
following format:

::name::description
::name::description

So and example of a newsgroup entry for say the BPEL newsgroup would be:

::eclipse.technology.bpel-designer::The <a 
href="http://www.eclipse.org/bpel";>BPEL Designer Editor project</a> will 
add comprehensive support to Eclipse for the definition, editing, 
deploying, testing, and debugging of WS-BPEL processes (Business Process 
Execution Language for Web Services) in vendor neutral environments. The 
implementation will be extensible to third-party vendors so that runtime 
implementations could integrate seamlessly to the 
design/build/deploy/test cycle and integrate specific domain WS-BPEL 
constructs and extension.

You can add as many newsgroups or mailing lists as you like, as long as 
each entry has the same format.

Each time the newsgroup or mailing list pages are requested the software 
checks to see if these files exist, and if they do then the contents are 
loaded into the page.  If the files cannot be found then the newsgroups 
and mailing lists for that project will not be included on the 
respective web pages.

These changes will go into effect for the news pages on the 30th of 
December

If you have any questions about these changes contact contact me.

-Matt.