newsclips - where to fit in about hub

[meiqimichelle]

@gbinal Are the newsclips already in yml (I don't know how github wikis work)? If no, I suggest that as a first step. I could see us pulling this into several parts of the 18f site once its revamped (never fear....still in process and moving). @gboone @mbland thoughts?

[gbinal]

No, just hyperlinked in github markdown. I'm happy to convert them but would just need to know where to put the material.

[meiqimichelle]

Got it. Well, before you spend the time doing it, I'll let @gboone and @mbland weigh in. I would imagine that the file would go....hmmm....maybe in the data-private repo if that is becoming our 18F data repo in general, but I might not be privy to the latest thinking there.

[gboone]

Good idea bringing this into the Hub or 18f-site. If it's just links and dates it could be yaml data. If we're going to summarize them at all it might be worth creating a collection for news clips.

[gbinal]

Let's go with yaml for now. I've only had the bandwidth to keep track of article links and titles and am not in a position to expand that.

FWIW, I'm not advocating adding this to the main 18f.gsa.gov. Personally, I think that'd be a bit garish. It's more a team resource that doesn't need to be private.

[meiqimichelle]

We'll see. It might be interesting to have just the latest news clip show
up somewhere. But yes, understood ;)

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Gray Brooks [email protected]
wrote:

Let's go with yaml for now. I've only had the bandwidth to keep track of
article links and titles and am not in a position to expand that.

FWIW, I'm not advocating adding this to the main 18f.gsa.gov. Personally,
I think that'd be a bit garish. It's more a team resource that doesn't need
to be private.

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[afeld]

It's more a team resource that doesn't need to be private.

Sounds like a good use case for a sub-page of the Hub, then 👍

https://github.com/18F/hub/tree/master/pages#publicly-visible-pages

[afeld]

...and can be fed by a data file in https://github.com/18F/hub/tree/master/_data, if you like.

[gbinal]

I'm happy to put them in as yml in /_data and we can figure out what to do with them.

Just to check, does this look okay to start? (it's the data I have, I'm just asking about format)

- article: Full Text Of Title
  url: http://www.publication.com/name_of_article
- article: Full Text Of Title, 2
  url: http://www.publication.com/name_of_article_2

[afeld]

👍

[gbinal]

#44

[gbinal]

Just to confirm, I don't plan to do individual additions to the clips.yml through pull requests but rather as direct commits. Holler if that's any concern, @afeld, @mbland

[afeld]

Nah that's fine. But if it breaks the build, I will find you

😉

[gbinal]

:)

[mbland]

@gbinal For stuff like this that's hard to screw up, that's perfectly fine. Though you may want to do something like the following for a sanity check:

$ ruby -e "require 'yaml'; puts YAML.load_file '_data/public/clips.yml'"

Whoops, I just noticed two things: One, that _data/public really isn't the best place for clips.yml. No matter; we can move it when we get ready to prepare the page. (And, I can better document that no data should be directly added to _data/public; it's an honest mistake and my fault for not having it better documented by now.)

Two:

/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/psych-2.0.9/lib/psych.rb:370:in `parse': (_data/public/clips.yml): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 2 column 26 (Psych::SyntaxError)

The first article: entry contains a colon. I think it needs to be wrapped in quotes. Same for lines 41, 44, 62, 80, 86, 128, 146, 158, 185, and 266. PR to fix: #46

[gbinal]

Have tried a first pass at making an html page at #47

@afeld, game to take a look?

[gbinal]

Like @afeld says, #47 addresses