Hi, Well, people without own blogs can use code.blender.org then (like me ;)
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands On 8 Nov, 2010, at 18:25, Bassam Kurdali wrote: > as an alternative, you could consider an aggregator, like what > jesterking made in planetblender, or planet.gnome.org, etc. > advantages: > -you can do cool design > -has blog-like format > -can invite only serious svn-write ppl > -they can tag their posts so only the blender/code related ones are > aggregated > -they keep their own blogs - many coders are already blogging > somewhere. > > disadvantages > -no comments directly in the planet, ppl have to go to original blog > to > comment. > -harder to setup than normal wordpress > -content is not hosted on blender.org, but scattered around > -some formatting/ embedding of media in original blogs might fail in > the > agregator. > > > On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 18:09 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> For temporary docs, work in progress, and other interesting >> development updates, both blender.org cms and wiki fail to satisfy. >> >> Check what developers post on others sites for example. Blogs offer a >> nice attractive layout, easy to add articles and pictures, and of >> course the option to post comments. >> >> I think of setting up a blog (wordpress) code.blender.org, with >> following features; >> - cool design (of course!) >> - only serious posts, on topic, exclusively for people with svn-write >> account on Blender >> - side bar with svn commit history >> - navigation to tracker, wiki docs, and other stuff that's on >> projects.b.o now >> >> The code.blender.org front end can then become a nice attractive & >> lively entry point for curious new devs as well. >> >> Note: I don't want to force it on developers to use it. More of >> provide a platform, to ensure all the shattered information on >> personal websites at least is being collected. But, I would use it to >> document small new features, instead of doing it on blender.org cms. >> >> Feedback welcome. >> >> -Ton- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation [email protected] www.blender.org >> Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The >> Netherlands >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
