Am Freitag, 28.03.03 um 05:05 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines:
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Max Horn wrote:
In fact, sf even has a facility that lets you include sf releases right on your pages. So, if someone has time to code it, we might consider using only the sf news, reprogram the webpage so that news comes from the sf news items.Uhm, why? So far we went very well with the current scheme. We can agree to change it, of course, but it's not really a "must". So far we only post major announcment to the SF.net news, because we then usually get them on the SF.net front page. Otherwise, I see little reason for posting stuff via the SF.net news system... but feel free to point out any compelling reasons I am overlooking :-)
See http://sourceforge.net/docman/ display_doc.php?docid=1502&group_id=1#newsexport for info on that.
(but until then - remember to do a sf news release for each fink homepage news item)
I see no argument here NOT to use the SF news system.
There are no heavy arguments against it, true. Although it would be some additional work, as we'd have to post-process the data they supply (it's not valid HTML, plus we want our own formatting/style).
It has a number of advantages which I thought were obvious, like appearing on the project news section in the sf site, archiving, free RSS feeds, etc.
We already have archiving and a RSS feed, though (not sure what you mean with "free"?). Both are under our full control, too, and under our direct control.
And there would be only one place to file news items rather than two.There is one place for news currently: Our homepage. Currently we only post to the SF.net news system when we make major announcments, and in these cases we also post to various mailing lists, freshmeat, Versiontracker.com, etc.
I thought this was obvious, guess not.
To me, it's not "obvious" so far, no :-)
"appearing on the sf.net front page" is an orthogonal issue, sf's policy for putting items on the front page is documented in the sf.net docs.I did mention it just to point out what I now pointed out again above - so far we only posted *major* news announcements to SF.net, for the single reasons that then we usually get on the SF.net front page. Otherwise, there is not much point (IMHO) in posting to the SF.net news system, since http://fink.sourceforge.net is the primary place for people to look for Fink news - not our SF.net project page.
We *can* investigate doing this, though <shrug>. If you volunteer to write the scripts to transform the data into valid HTML that is suitable for our web page, do so. But I wanted to make it clear that I see no good reasons for doing it (and still haven't seen one in your emails) <shrug>
Cheers,
Max
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