Am Samstag, 29.03.03 um 02:09 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines:
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 04:50 AM, Max Horn wrote:
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
Interestingly, the sf.net docs say 'post news more often, you will get on the front page more', which is strange, but whatever. :)
That rule is only a rule of the thumb, and only true if you assume that they pick news for the front page randomly from the pool of all news items. Whenever they update the front page news, they only take news from that day (or at most the day before). Of course that means, the more often you release, the more likely you are to hit a "front page news" day, with a chance of getting to the front. Furthermore, the more "interesting" news are, the more likely they are too be picked.
But in reality, this is differently. Contrary to what one might think, it's usually that they first pick a date, and then on that date pick news. In my impression it's more the opposite, they see "interesting" news and then post them. For SF.net, Fink is one of the "interesting" projects, they watch us closely (together with various other projects; I mean, just check out the list of the "projects of the month" to get an idea :-).
Just count how many of our SF.net news in the last year were on the front page (hint: a lot), compute the percentage, and then compare that with any other project :-)
Max
