On 02/05/2015 10:35 AM, David Somers-Harris wrote: >On 01/21/2015 05:41 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> >> >> On 01/21/2015 10:06 AM, Tony Coffman wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> the question isnt 'how' its just a xml file, you can write it by >>>> hand if you wish. the question is what do we put inside it and how >>>> do we make sure what we put inside it is accurate. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Why not do a minimal version that simply includes the information >>> from the centos-announce mailing list and no external data? There >>> are a few other errata fields that can simply be filled in with "not >>> available". This minimal solution is nearly there using existing >>> open source scripts tied together. >> >> If someone from the community would be willing to script something up >> for this we can take a look at it. > >Is this the kind of script you are envisioning? > Input: > Announcement data input by author or CentOS announcement. should read "author of CentOS announcement" > Output: > Announcement email text > updateinfo.xml patch > >> I've been toying with the idea of >> adding an rss feed to www.centos.org for the repositories in place of >> updateinfo, mostly since Johnny is quite correct, we don't validate >> cve closure, so providing that info as if we do seems a bit wrong. > > I don't see anything wrong with filling errata fields with "not available" as Tony suggested, > at least to start with.