From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 08:59:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D0516A422; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:59:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4000C43D55; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:59:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7I8xhcL060626; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:59:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7I8xh1d000888; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:59:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j7I8xhpY000887; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:59:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:59:43 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Murray Stokely Message-ID: <20050818085943.GC660@gothic.blackend.org> References: <200508171450.j7HEojhG023160@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050817175609.GA598@gothic.blackend.org> <20050817175848.GC94646@freebsdmall.com> <20050817195746.GI55885@submonkey.net> <20050817205400.GE598@gothic.blackend.org> <20050817223737.GA99144@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050817223737.GA99144@freebsdmall.com> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Ceri Davies , cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/share/sgml events2ics.xsl www/en/events Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:59:47 -0000 On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:37:37PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:54:00PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > Yes, I thought about this; since the news are also provided via RSS, > > this news will reach a lot of persons. > > > > Talking about this, I was thinking about one thing, what about > > announcing in Project News each time we add a new doc (article, Handbook > > chapter)? I read Murray wanted to announce new Mark's article, which is > > I have been doing this off and on for years. I think we all > should. =) See my recent commit announcing Dru's new marketing > whitepaper. > Someone talked with me about this paper cause he heard about it via the news. I'm quite sure that without the announce, many persons would never hear about this document. > The newsflash is put to much better use with this kind of information > than when it is allowed to overflow with new committer announcements > (those are important to, but it is sad to see them as the only news > items). > Yes, I often share the same fealing about new committer announcements :) > > a good thing. However, we may want to do this for new Handbook chapters > > too, for example how people can "discover" that a new GEOM chapter have > > been added? > > The GEOM chapter is not very complete at this point. I thought about > adding it to the news.xml a few days ago but decided it would be > better to have more rounds of review and improvement. It doesn't make > a good first impression of the Handbook compared to some of our other > chapters. > > With a little more work maybe we could announce the GEOM chapter in a > few weeks. > I agree. > > Maybe the Project News is not the right place for these sort of > > announces, but I still think we should communicate about important doc > > additions/changes. > > Maybe we should treat the docs like the GNOME or Java news flashes. > They maintain their own news files for those interested enough to > peruse the second level pages, and occasionally, a major announcement > is added to the top level news.xml file. > Seems a good way to follow. Marc