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bug #57855: doc/webpage.ms: replace with RELNOTES.ms

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Wed 19 Feb 2020 01:16:26 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  None
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Sat 16 Jul 2022 12:48:54 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Repurposing this ticket.

Hollow out much of the very old content of this document, rename it, and replace it with release notes for groff 1.23.0.

The release notes should be the template for a release announcement email to go to info-gnu or whatever, EXCLUDING the relevant contents of the `NEWS` file (which are already present in the distribution, but which can be pasted into the email).

I guess we can use some `www` macros if they will serve nicely, but we certainly don't need to use undocumented ones.  See bug #62627.

The colorful bits and the image of the gnu can stick around.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 01 Jun 2021 08:44:45 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Branden also says in that email post: "doc/webpage.ms... appears to be the source document for the groff home page at some time in the past."

This conjecture is borne out by a 2005 email, which explains the then process for building and installing it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-10/msg00048.html

Dave <barx>
Group Member
Sat 07 Nov 2020 11:10:34 AM UTC, comment #2: 

However, rather than closing this bug as "Wont Fix," I'm repurposing it, in line with the thread cited in comment #1.

As Branden says at the start of the thread:

> doc/webpage.ms is a nice example of how to do some fairly sophisticated
> stuff with groff, putting groff color extensions and the www macro
> package on top of the classical ms macro package to make an attractive
> hypertext document.
>
> ...but it is a maintenance burden to keep up.


The most popular option (though with admittedly few ballots cast) of those he listed was:

> Modify it to make it more obviously an example, removing everything
> that seems outdated or untimely.


So that's what this report is now tracking.

Dave <barx>
Group Member
Sat 31 Oct 2020 09:47:50 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Declining to update doc/webpage.ms with every new release's NEWS was a deliberate decision based on email list discussion (see thread starting at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-11/msg00011.html) around the time of the 1.22.4 release.

Dave <barx>
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Wed 19 Feb 2020 01:16:26 AM UTC, original submission:  

Subject: doc/webpage.ms: NEWS VERSION 1.22.4 is missing

  The NEWS content is only included for version 1.22.3 and older.


Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-07-18 gbranden CategoryMacro ms General
    2022-07-16 gbranden Summarydoc/webpage.ms: modify it to make it more obviously an example doc/webpage.ms: replace with RELNOTES.ms
    2021-05-14 barx CategoryNone Macro ms
    2020-11-07 barx Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        Summarydoc/webpage.ms: NEWS VERSION 1.22.4 is missing doc/webpage.ms: modify it to make it more obviously an example
    2020-11-02 barx SummarySubject: doc/webpage.ms: NEWS VERSION 1.22.4 is missing doc/webpage.ms: NEWS VERSION 1.22.4 is missing

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