Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-02 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 03/01/2012 12:06 PM, Dave Neary wrote: To be an effective news site, we will need to be very selective about the content we agrgegate - I don't want, for example, an announce mailing list RSS stream sent straight to the site - and see half of the front page with fixed-width font that

GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, A potential GNOME News redesign [1] has been brought up on this list a few times in the past. We really need a better channel for distributing and generating news about GNOME, something that can handle original content as well as content that is syndicated. Christy Eller has recently

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 03/01/2012 11:26 AM, Allan Day wrote: ... Thanks for the update! Looks like things are coming along nicely. Any feedback from the Journal authors editors? Are they involved in the news rework at this point? To be an effective news site, we will need to be very selective about the

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +, 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

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 03/01/2012 02:22 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +, 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

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:33:51PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: 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

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Christy Eller
Hi- Thanks so much for your feedback- From what I understand, Sri and Emily have been working on Journal. Sri and Allan and I had a meeting about these news ideas, and Sri was very involved in getting the news-test site infrastructure set up. He indicated that he was open to discussion about

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Emily Gonyer
I currently have 3 completed articles for the GNOME journal (two interviews one article), and am hoping for at least one more article more focused on development of an application or gnome shell or something, then once I get the stuff for the quarterly report we'll publish it all at once, and

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 03/01/2012 11:26 AM, Allan Day wrote: ... Thanks for the update! Looks like things are coming along nicely. Any feedback from the Journal authors editors? Are they involved in the news rework at this point? To

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:26:03AM +, Allan Day wrote: 1. Aggregate news feeds just like the current news site does So all existing feeds would be preserved? ... Currently the idea is to maintain most of the current

Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: On 03/01/2012 04:36 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: As long as it is on there within 24 hours, all is fine. I don't understand. Is this a requirement you'd like to suggest for the news site? That all emails sent to announcement lists get