On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/12/12 14:48, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 03/12/12 13:42, Rob Weir wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm not suggesting we argue with anyone. I'm suggesting we make >>>>> truthful positive statements about this project and the experience >>>>> level of its participants. >>>>> >>>> FWIW, and just my humble opinion ... >>>> >>>> I don't think we should spend time discussing such arguments >>>> when we have the one instrument that defines the true >>>> continuation of the project, namely www.openoffice.org . >>>> >>> Oh, I'm sure we all have our own preferred ways of doing this. The >>> nice thing is that they are not mutually exclusive. We only need to >>> agree to be accurate and positive. We don't need to agree on a >>> narrow set of specific communications. Some volunteers might work >>> better with HTML, others with YouTube videos, others with graphics. >>> Let's find more ways of saying "yes and" instead of "no, but". >>> >>> -Rob >> >> >> You didn't get it: the channel matters. >> >> If a blog from the Apache Foundation says "OpenOffice is not >> dead" and a blog from TDF says "OpenOffice.org is dead", >> well ... both can be wrong or right ... >> >> OTOH, If the openoffice.org says "alive and kicking" the >> message is way more credible. >> > > So that is a "yes, and" statement. Yes, let's do the home page, and > the other things as well, if we have volunteers to do them. They work > together. Certainly the home page gets a lot of traffic, so it can > reinforce a message. > >> This said ... I don't feel confident enough to modify the >> main page: if I, for example, screw things up badly and >> want to revert my changes, can I do that easily in >> Apache CMS? >> > > It may depend on whether you want to change only the main index.html > page, or change the repeated page elements that appear on every page. > Dave would know how far you can go without forcing a complete rebuild.
We now use Server Side Includes and there are no longer any sledgehammer builds. I have a notion to make it easy to add news to the main page. The buttons are a current issue on the main page and the downloads. It is safe to change/update news stories using the Apache CMS Bookmarklet directly from www.openoffice.org. If you are not a committer then you can create a patch. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >> cheers, >> >> Pedro.
