Re: documentation build log is busted, and has been for awhile

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 01:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Is anybody maintaining
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/buildlog.html
> > ?
> >
> > For some time now, that page has failed to update if the underlying
> > build fails, which makes it approximately completely useless.  A more
> > cosmetic but still annoying problem is that the build completion time
> > isn't shown correctly.  For example, the current contents of the page
> > are
> >
> >     PostgreSQL Documentation Build Log
> >
> >     Build started: 2010-05-26 22:39 UTC
> >     Build finished: + echo -n '' + date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'
> >
> >     No changes in this build
> >
> >     Build completed successfully.
> >
> >     View or download the documentation.
> >
> > even though somebody committed broken markup half an hour ago.
>
> hmm - maybe we should monitor as part of the main monitoring
> infrastructure just like we monitor the snapshot builds...
> However if the docs failed to build for a while I wonder why the
> snapshots are still getting done...

Peter, I think I can fix the script if you would tell me how to update
it.  The code is based on a shell script I originally wrote.

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