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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:28:31 +0900
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues
From: Douglas Anderson <dja@gendja.com>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:30 AM, AllenJB <gentoo-lists@allenjb.me.uk> wrote:
> My idea for a web-only setup would require more initial work, but I think
> would make maintenance much easier once set up. The Gentoo Newsletter would
> become a separate website, not based on GuideXML, but on a standard CMS.
> Instead of having set release dates (weekly or monthly), articles would just
> be released as soon as they are produced.
>
> The regular features like bug stats, GLSAs, developer changes could be
> easily generated automatically (I suspect almost all of those are mostly
> done automatically anyway - adapting such scripts for a CMS that can publish
> from RSS feeds should be relatively trivial) and would appear on the website
> without any intervention.
Allan, firstly I really like and appreciate that you're interested in
Gentoo PR. You're not the only one concerned about it :) I also tried
to help out with the newsletter a few months ago... not the best
experience.
However. Besides bugstats and dev join/retires, gentoo.org/index2.xml
has already implemented everything you're talking about. It gets news
as soon as it's written, has GLSAs and package additions generated
automatically (could add removals), plus the blog roll is such a great
step toward showing the active side of gentoo.
What would be _really_ cool is if the WYSISYG guideXML editor
quantumsummers is (was?) working on allowed users and devs alike to
submit news stories to the PR team.
Anyway, It sounds like your idea is essentially getting rid of the
newsletter and adding more automatic stats to the front page. No need
to create a new page with a different CMS.
Thoughts?
-Doug