tree 29dc06f2a583ec02749550ad57615a0ccd7e5310
parent 2f570610c3f30be359b5fe75f71575cb96328b13
author Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org> 1587408667 -0400
committer Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org> 1587497303 +0000

cmd/golangorg: generate release history page from structured data

Previously, the release history page was a raw HTML file that was
manually edited whenever new Go releases were made. This change
converts release history entries into a structured format in the
new internal/history package, and generates release history entries
from that format.

For now, only Go 1.9 and newer releases are converted, but the
structured format is flexible enough to represent all releases
going back to the original Go 1 release.

Various English grammar rules and special cases are preserved,
so that the release history entries appear in a consistent way.

New release history entries need only to be added to the internal/
history package, making it so that English grammar rules and HTML
tags don't need to go through human code review for each release.
Future work may involve constructing that list from data already
available in the Go issue tracker.

This change makes minimal contributions to reducing the dependence
of x/website on the x/tools/godoc rendering engine for displaying
pages other than Go package documentation. The x/tools/godoc code
is in another module and does not provide flexibility desired for
the general purpose website needs of x/website.

Fixes golang/go#38488.
For golang/go#37090.
For golang/go#29206.

Change-Id: I80864e4f218782e6e3b5fcd5a1d63f3699314c81
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/website/+/229081
Run-TryBot: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Rakoczy <alex@golang.org>