hot topic #2

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:18:47PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:13:28AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote about 'hot topic #2':
> > Voting time:
> 
> > ~  Q) Do people think keepiong the <pubdate> tag
> > ~     in the docs is a good idea?
> 
> > ~  Problem is that people forget to update the pubdate
> > ~  and so thing look out of date.  I personally think
> > ~  that we should just pull it form the front page
> > ~  of the HOWTO collection.  I don't care about the
> > ~  other docs as long as people update it when they
> > ~  update the information.
> Let's use $Date$ tags! ;-)
> 
> Ok, seriously: I don't think it's very useful to keep them in. They're
> a pain to keep up to date. Having a valid date in there is very
> useful though, so we might want to take a different approach: get the
> last date from CVS using a script and put that inside the (generated)
> TeX file?
Or one could use XSLT's properties and fetch date of build to use it as
publishing date. 

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