On Saturday 15 February 2014 19:33:28 Mark de Wever wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:41:30PM +0100, Nils Kneuper wrote:
> > I think the consensus was that there is likely not going to be a "real"
> > blog plattform. Instead devs could/should write "news" entries in this
> > specific forum [1] (called "News").
>
> Hmm I don't recall reading that :-/
I don't remember there being any consensus or even any attempts at discussing
the platform for this particular point, on IRC or otherwise.
On Saturday 15 February 2014 19:33:28 Mark de Wever wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:41:30PM +0100, Nils Kneuper wrote:
> > Considering our usual activity I guess it would be good to also have this
> > content reflected on the front page, so yes, this would be the right
> > place.
>
> Well I'd like to have it on the front page or a separate blog. These are
> the places I myself also often look for interesting things about
> projects. So if everything written in the News forum ends up on the
> front page I'm happy.
Furthermore, there wasn't any consensus among the forum administration on the
intended usage for the News forum [1], so it is currently just a mirror of the
frontpage news rather than the other way around.
1: http://r.wesnoth.org/p562742
That said, so far I have maintained this by posting to the forum and updating
the front page for every new release announcement. I don't think this is an
optimal approach in the long-term and I would rather remove the forum or make
the News section of the front page [2] dynamic content (either with PHP or JS)
taken from the actual forum posts.
Of course, if people absolutely want to use it, I can and will continue to
maintain it until a better solution comes up. I could give all developers
read/write access to the forum and continue to manually keep the site front
page up to date myself.
2: http://www.wesnoth.org/
The front page is static HTML content mostly for historical reasons
revolving around resource requirements, I believe. This means that only
server administrators may change it, for obvious reasons. I do believe
our new host should be better able to handle increased loads, though.
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Regards
Ignacio R. Morelle <shadowm>
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