Jim Campbell wrote: > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > There is no need to start a flamewar about the subject. Again I feel > that this is one of the situations where I think having experts from > different areas matter - the experts in web should be listened > more when > we are talking about things concerning web. > > > FWIW, the Ubuntu server team just has a team blog up at > ubuntuserver.wordpress.com <http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com>. Not > very fancy! The launchpad team has a blog up at blog.launchpad.net > <http://blog.launchpad.net>. The Kubuntu team does not have a team blog. > > I do like the idea of having a team blog, though. A team blog is > different than a planet in that the team blog belongs to the project, > and the authorship does not belong to one person. Also, the content > seems more polished than one might find on a regular developer blog. > (No offense to regular developer blogs . . . ). I'm comfortable with > individual developer blogs just being on planet.ubuntu.com > <http://planet.ubuntu.com>, but if others feel otherwise - that's ok, too. My point in "Planet Xubuntu" was to gather all the Xubuntu posts in one place, like Planet Ubuntu does for everything *buntu*. Xubuntu is a way smaller subject and I doubt that the PX would have a different audience than PU. I know it sounds like doubling things, but this is what I perceive. We also could aggregate something that is not aggregated into PU and point to related sites.
If we decide to set up a team blog which has no aggregated posts from the authors own blogs, we are growing our workload quite a lot. We have been very lazy in updating our website, the wiki etc. etc., but most of us have written our personal blogs quite conscientious. Gathering a Xubuntu Planet would in this light make some sense. The content would be quite easily updated, even if the post quality and appropriateness would not be as great as it would be with blog with no aggregated posts. > > With regards to our current site are the RSS Feeds for Xubuntu.org > broken? Is Drupal limited in how well it can configure RSS feeds, or > are we just not using it right? Pasi, it sounds like you are > suggesting that we move Xubuntu.org to Worpress MU, correct? If you are in any other page than home page, the RSS link in the left is not working. It seems like a bug in the HTML creating code, not sure if it is my fault. Yes, I suggest and stand for WPMU. > > All things being equal, I would like to stay with Drupal to stay > consistent with the other Ubuntu flavors, if possible. If an upgrade > to Drupal, or adding in additional modules, would give us more > features (or fix existing features), I think we should look at that > before considering moving everything over to Wordpress. I don't know how much consistency really matters in this situation. There is no place where the sites should be working together or exchanging content. And Xubuntu is a community-driven project after all. I'm not really fond of Drupal personally, and that of course guides my opinions about it in a community also. I think we can get to the same outcome with both Drupal and WP(MU), though. Migrating to WP (or any CMS/whatever) would not be really hard, because we have that little content. I've just migrated my personal blogs worth of ~150 articles, ~100 comments and lots of other things to WP, and it wasn't that exhaustive, even if I had to do most of it manually. > > A bit offtopic, but I think the Oxford Archaeology blog is a good > example of a "team blog done well." In fact, generally speaking the > other team blogs (Q.A., Launchpad, Server Team) are done pretty well, > too . . . It's just that the O.A. blog stands out to me as one that is > particularly well-done. For example, it has content you don't find > elsewhere, the posts are well-organized, it includes grahics where > relevant, and they break-up sections of text with different headings > to make it easier to read. That would be the kind of professionalism > that I would expect from Xubuntu team blog entries. For what it comes to "doing a blog well", I think WP is far superior to Drupal in this matter. It is really easy to template to work as a blog and to show different kind of content lists, page layouts and whatever. > > Jim A note I would like to make that it is *totally* overkill to have Drupal for the website *AND* WordPress for the blog(s). As I've said earlier, we can achieve the same results in both. I'd still suggest going for WPMU due to its superior features and templating blogs. -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
