Re: Gsoc-Announcements distributed over the ports tree

[Ryan Schmidt]

To be honest, I wasn't aware of this GSoC proposal until the emails started 
showing up on this list recently, so I don't really understand it yet. The 
entry on the wiki is vague. Could someone give some examples of the types of 
announcements we're envisioning publishing via this system? We already have the 
announce mailing list and the news section of the web site for publishing 
announcements of general interest to the entire MacPorts community. Is this new 
proposal supposed to be yet a third way to publish the same announcements, or 
rather different announcements related to specific ports, for which we 
currently don't offer a solution other than the "notes" variable? If the 
latter, then I don't see wanting to make it visible on the web site, at least 
not until we have a redesigned site with individual pages for each port.