Re: Gnotices Archives -> Keep Comments?
- From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>, stro gnomedesktop org
- Cc: GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Gnotices Archives -> Keep Comments?
- Date: 27 Sep 2002 17:08:59 +0200
A little on the side, but waiting for a new solution would it be
possible to get the gnomedesktop.org newsfeed listen on the frontpage as
we used to have the gnotices newsfeed? the current empty gnome-news area
looks kinda boring/borked.
Christian
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:26, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="iain">
>
> > Will gnomedesktop be linked from the front page, or will it be only
> > available to the cognoscenti? Like sunshineinabag.co.uk.
>
> Linked from the main news page, for sure.
>
> > I am just afraid that all the effort that has been put into gnomedesktop
> > will be a) duplicated and b) wasted in our NIH desire for websites. And
> > nothing you've said yet has reassured me.
>
> a) different news, so not duplicated. the most interesting stuff from
> gnome.org would almost certainly appear on gnomedesktop.org too.
>
> b) we're not very good at website NIH given that it's not even up and
> running yet!
>
> > As an aside to show that we don't have to do everything: kde doesn't
> > seem to have this problem and is quite happy to have their application
> > lists run by an unoffically official independant site (kde.com)
>
> Yeah, but that stuff isn't "official word of KDE Project and/or League"
> material. Like I said before, this is not duplication, because the news is
> different.
>
> www.gnome.org has a whole bunch of "newsish stuff" that no one gets to hear
> about because it's tucked away in, for example, the Foundation news page,
> project pages such as a11y, usability, translations, then there's the weekly
> news feed, etc., etc. Not all of this is general interest, but it's all
> official GNOME stuff, either from maintainers, projects or the foundation.
>
> We're *embracing* gnomedesktop.org as the best general interest GNOME news
> site for users. We've already done away with Gnotices to that effect. The
> new news system on gnome.org will not compete with that. I can even see us
> syndicating the gnomedesktop.org stuff *inline* (so it's very accessible,
> but with most of the information off-site), rather than putting it all in a
> silly box on the side.
>
> Totally not NIH, far from it.
>
> - Jeff
>
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