+1 Cheers, Ruppert
On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:02 PM, David E Jones wrote: > > BTW, maybe it wasn't clear in my other messages but I am against these > guidelines. For a reason why take a look at which news items would have been > left in and which would have been removed. > > IMO if it's going to be a news section, it should only be news, and all > promotional material should go somewhere else. > > That's the direction we've started heading in, and I hope it will continue. > The reason I think that is not because I'm against having these things on the > home page, but it seems like if we don't draw a draconian line then every > exception to that draconian line will likely favor one group or another and > we can't seem to handle that as a community right now. > > -David > > > On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:47 PM, David E Jones wrote: > >> >> A couple of quick points: >> >> 1. a solution to this has already started, see Tim's recent commit and issue >> about the main page >> 2. proposals like this would generally not be adopted by lack of dissent, >> but rather by consent or positive vote >> >> -David >> >> >> On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Sharan-F wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Everyone >>> >>> I've created a page on the Wiki with the proposal suggested by Scott. I >>> think this topic has been discussed in depth quite a lot lately – so I'd >>> like to suggest that we try and finalise it so that it's clear for everyone >>> going forward. >>> >>> Here's the link the the page with the proposal for news items. >>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/iwfi >>> >>> If anyone is opposed to adopting these guidelines then please speak up. >>> >>> On the other hand if everyone is happy to adopt this then I'd like to >>> suggest the following: >>> >>> 1. the page (or content) is moved to somewhere secure as you wont want >>> anyone to overwrite or delete, what's been agreed >>> 2. a link from the news section be made to the page content. >>> >>> Let's see if we can get this issue solved and get back to what we all do >>> best - OFBiz! >>> >>> I'm happy to get any feedback on this. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sharan >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://n4.nabble.com/Proposal-Guidelines-for-News-Items-tp1597365p1597365.html >>> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >
