Update Announcement Format discussion

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 15:25, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:19, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > For now, just the last entry.  In the future, when I have the software 
> > I'm dreaming up to make a webpage module out of a directory tree of 
> > RPMs, flush with data such as description and such, we may be able to 
> > point to this for the changelog in full.  But for now, just the 
> > relevant parts.
> 
> <plug>
> Fancix already does quite a bit of that... dynamically.  It's in alpha
> state currently: http://sf.net/projects/fancix/, and RPMs + deps from
> http://cachalot.mine.nu/ and fedora.us repos.
> </plug>
> 

Ville, 
 We should talk about: http://linux.duke.edu/metadata - specifically the
generate/createrepo program that makes xml out of a hierarchy of rpms.
IT could make fancix be a little less abusive to a server when looking
through lots of files.

-sv