I am planning to do a little housecleaning in CVS, but particularly the "docs-common" module. We have a number of areas in that module in which rendered content is saved along with source data, when this content could be produced on an "as-needed" basis by the user. Here are some examples: 1. Eliminate PNG and EPS files from docs-common/images/ and docs-common/stylesheet-images/, instead saving only SVG (XML) and using PO and librsvg2 to generate new PNG files. Include a single fallback watermark so that users do not need to install librsvg2 (and drag in GNOME) to test document builds. + Saves >800 KB of d/l bandwidth for users. + po/ directory should pick up ACL mask for translators. 2. Eliminate repetitive XML files from docs-common/common/ and docs-common/common/entities/, again using PO instead, and adapting build tools to use PO on-the-fly rather than requiring users to download unused files. + Saves >600-700 KB of d/l bandwidth for users. + No additional tools required other than what is already used (xml2po) 3. I also see there is some chaff in the docs-common/stylesheet-images/, particularly a "titlepage.png" and "titlepage.eps" that were probably there for testing the press release stuff back in the day. I will probably remove those to the attic; SVG gladly accepted to replace them if desired. + Saves 1 MB (!) of d/l bandwidth for users. Although a simple "du -sk" command shows that docs-common is over 6.5 MB in size, that's a bit misleading, as we're seeing *disk block usage*. That number reflects 50-75% overhead for many of the small (< 4KB) files in use. "du -sbc" shows a much more reasonable ~3.3 MB. The savings above should cut that down to just several hundred KB. Discussion? -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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