A suggestion on managing the feed of news items that appears on the front page of python.org.
All the best, Michael Foord Begin forwarded message: > From: Justin Blank <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Python.org front page news features (near-)duplicates > Date: 23 October 2012 01:17:35 BST > To: Michael Foord <[email protected]> > > As I said, the point is that updates displayed on a webpage should be > decoupled from the RSS feed. RSS is plumbing. > > Here is one idea: a widget displays the n-most recent items in the RSS > feed by default (or it could be all entries more recent than a certain > date). However, a human can override that default, and either a) keep > certain items displaying for longer, or b) hide entries (like release > candidates) that have been superceded by more recent developments. . > > Release candidates are important news when they happen. They cease > being news once the actual software is released. At that point, they > are history, and are of interest to a limited set of people. > > Justin > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello Justin, >> >> The main use case for the RSS feed is to be consumed via feed readers, so >> most people will see items as they are posted rather than all at the same >> time. I don't see how else we could generate a useful feed of news items >> other than as they are posted though. Betas and release candidates of new >> versions of Python is important news after all. >> >> All the best, >> >> Michael Foord >> >> >> On 22 Oct 2012, at 20:10, Justin Blank <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On the python.org front page, there is an RSS feed of news. At >>> present, this displays the fact that Python 3.3 was released (good), >>> but it also dispays three additional 3.3 release candidates. Since >>> seven news items are displayed in my browser, that means almost half >>> of them are wasted. I am personally insane enough to be curious what >>> the schedule of release candidates was for already released software >>> (indeed, I have checked that information for several operating systems >>> and other pieces of software recently), but it's not what I expect to >>> see when I go to the python website, or what I'd expect most users >>> would like to see. >>> >>> Of course, these are perfectly reasonable items to include in an RSS >>> feed, which one assumes will be consumed the first time it's seen, but >>> I think what that shows is that the front page news feed needs to be >>> decoupled from the RSS feed. >>> >>> Justin >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ >> >> >> May you do good and not evil >> May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others >> May you share freely, never taking more than you give. >> -- the sqlite blessing >> http://www.sqlite.org/different.html >> >> >> >> >> > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
