...Gee, i am not sure what you are talking about Steven. Why do you think that a "blogging tool" is needed to do a simple publishing of news snippets? And why do you think that it needs to be a live webapp? We can still get prompt publishing using the current Forrest CLI generation of Cocoon xdocs....
Let me outline my thoughts about what I think we need (are these concerns shared by the way?)
-Publish more-or-less-weekly news about Cocoon, write something even if it's to say "not much happened", to keep in touch with other projects, users, etc.
-A very easy way for committers to publish news. I know Forrest generation is easy, but how does the complete cycle look, from "writing two lines of news" to "published in the RSS feed"? Just to clarify, assuming only the news.xml file is modified.
..http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/changes.html Already has an RSS version...
Cool - then we'd only need to enable this for news.xml as well, and make a prominent link to it on the front page.
I volunteer to do the necessary changes if needed (but not right now, very busy - say beginning of November).
...That does not equate to Forrest becoming a "blogging tool" and as far as i know it does not intend to be one (though Forrest does still have many dreams)...
We do not necessarily need a blogging tool, let's concentrate on the above concerns if they are shared.
-Bertrand
-- Bertrand Delacretaz independent consultant, Lausanne, Switzerland http://cvs.apache.org/~bdelacretaz/
