Kay has started a page on the wiki to list possible areas where we can improve the website:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30737243 One of the ideas concerned the little news stories that we put on the home page. Since I think I'm the only one that has been maintaining this part of the website, let me explain how it works today, and why that sucks. When it comes time to add a new story I do the following: 1) Edit the home page via the CMS 1a) Add a new story at the top 1b) Remove the oldest story from the bottom and move it to another file, news/index.html (This is especially annoying because 1a and 1b are structured differently, so it is not a simple cut & paste) 2) Send summaries of the news story out via Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. We could probably do better than this. For example we could do all news stories via our existing project blog. That removes the need for a page of archival news stories, since Roller provides that. We could retrieve and parse the RSS or Atom feed for the blog to populate the home page. And there are services to autopost things to Twitter, etc., from a feed as well. Or this could be done from the other direction. We could do all short news items via Twitter and then just do a Twitter stream on the home page. Or we could have a feed XML that we check into SVN and display on home page. These are all variations of "one feed to rule them all". There are several variations on this basic idea. Perhaps this would be an interesting small project for someone in the community? Regards, -Rob
