On 28 May 2015 at 10:05, Hardy Ferentschik <ha...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:47:29PM -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote: >> At the moment we write release announcements using in.relation.to and then >> announce in other mediums by posting that link. We all agree (more or >> less) that the wiki editor and rendering on there leaves much to be desired. > > +100, the editor and rendering sucks. > >> Brett had mentioned a long time ago about GitHub and its release >> capabilities and tonight I went back and looked at them again. I created a >> more descriptive release announcement in GitHub then its default of just >> using the tag message for this 5.0.0.CR1 release just to see how it worked >> out. Here are the 2 links for comparison: >> >> * http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM500CR1Release >> * https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/5.0.0.CR1 >> >> There are a few things to notice here. First, I think we can all agree >> that the second looks considerably better. Also, there is a lot to be said >> for these being closely available from the source repo. > > I like this approach in general and I agree there is a certain merit in having > the announcements in the source repo, BUT :-) > > We are very close now with the migration of in.relation.to to awestruct. In > fact I > was hoping we could do the migration within a couple of weeks. Using the > awestruct > based blog, we get markdown/ascidoc for writing the blog entries and also a > blog > which matches it its style the current hibernate.org website. It also means > we can > continue our practice of announcing on the blog. The release announcements > make up > a considerable part of the blog content, I fear moving them to GitHub will > make our blog > to appear stagnant.
+1 Not least, it's an extremely lengthy process to change the habits of your user population to go look elsewhere, I think that any move to a different URL - no matter how shiny the new place - would be damaging. Of course if we could post a link and some metadata on github releases automatically as well, that would be nice. Granted that with the style of the current blog platform it might not have such a big population of readers, but we hope the new blog to be better at that. At very least I think we need to keep the new feeds alive, they are not only fetched directly by readers but also aggregated by other platforms such as the very hibernate.org > > My vote is to push this blog migration through - now! Looking forward to it! TBH I don't even remember how the drafts looked like.. -- Sanne > > --Hardy > > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
