Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:59:43 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, 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 Message-ID: <20050818085943.GC660@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20050817223737.GA99144@freebsdmall.com> 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>
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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
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