Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

On 03/01/2012 02:22 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> > 1. Aggregate news feeds just like the current news site does
>
> So all existing feeds would be preserved? Currently it has various
> mailing lists as source. The resulting post is not that great, but it is
> pretty nice to just be able to send an email announcement and have
> news.gnome.org be updated automatically.

It might be nice for the sender, but as you say, it's not that nice for 
the reader. I would discourage that practice. I'd much prefer that 
interesting announcements get a news article which can point to the 
announce email (like on LWN).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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