Hi, On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 05:16:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:53:41AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Keeping up with the news is a lot of work, and there's usually not > > enough people to do it. It doesn't make sense to do the work twice. > > Why not work together with Ana into making this website and the DWN > > newsletter two ways of accessing the same information? > > In fact, what I think is really sub-optimal is that potential > contributors have two different channels to submit news. For instance, > I submit from time to time news to news.debian.net by mailing > [email protected]. Now that DWN is being resurrected I don't really want > to have to inform two separate recipients (most likely because I'll > forget one of the two addresses). > > How about establishing a common place to collect news? > > If [email protected] is already an established place, maybe Ana > (BCc-ed) can make news.d.n submit address point there and follow that > list? Similar concerns exist for the form on news.d.n, maybe it can > notify -publicity upon submission too? >
Currently the most 2 popular ways of submitting stuff to news.d.n are the email address [email protected] and the web form. The web form just sends an email to the [email protected] alias. If somebody wants to volunteer to be added to this alias and add the important bits in the DPN's subversion, it seems to me like a good solution. I do not think it is a good idea including in such alias debian-publicity@ because it gets a lot of spam (99.99 % of the alias traffic). I think it could be interesting add here a few statistics about the number of contributions http://news.debian.net has got. The service has been running for 8 months now and it has got exactly 18 submissions: 14 via the web form and 4 by email. I only have "rejected" 2 submissions, one was from a user and the problem was basically bad timing on my side to look at it, the other was about an ongoing Debian event and I asked better to link a final report about the event. At least 4 of the web form submission have been after asking the submitter via IRC directly if he could submit something to news.d.n. Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
