On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob, > > Go to a single entry page. For example, > <https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/an_apache_openoffice_timeline>. > > Scroll down to the bottom of the right sidebar, just below the AOO logo. > > Be sure to log in. > > Then use Create&Edit:Comment. > > You will see all 30 of the comments for the entire blog. There are a few > that have not been approved. A few have been tagged as spam. >
Thanks. I would not have noticed it there. I'm too accustomed to WordPress, > It appears that there is no one who is notified when there are new entries > here. Also, this is one of those where no one has agreed to curate the > comment queue. I remember finding it long ago and curating some comments, > but since I haven't been writing any posts, there is nothing in existence > that reminds me to go looking for comments. > I think it automatically closes comments 30 days after a post. So it should be fine for the post authors to check in periodically and process comments in that period. An email notification would make it easier,of course. > I just did a quick review and approved a couple of recent ones. They are > typically on-topic as questions to us, but not always on-topic with regard to > the post they are applied to. > Right.The "native SVG" post has a question about when IBM will be contributing Symphony. I don't see the connection to that particular post. It must have just been a convenient place to post a question. It is like the nearly daiily support questions we get to the bugzilla admin address, even though the website says in bold letters not to use that address for support questions. sigh.... -Rob > There are none on any post since March 7, though. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 22:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Does the AOO blog ever get comments? > > It seems odd to me that we didn't receive any comments at all on the > email shutdown post, even though a link was sent out to 4000+ people > on the announce list, as well as sent to a number of the legacy OOo > lists. > > I see nothing either, when I log in to edit the blog. No comments at all. > > Is there a rights issue here? If we're moderating comments for spam > or whatever, then we really should make it (if possible) so blog > authors can approve and respond to comments. It doesn't work that > well otherwise. (Alternatively, make all blog authors also > moderators, admins or whatever other Roller role needed to work with > comments.) > > -Rob >
