cvs commit: www/en/news news.xml

[Murray Stokely]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:54:07PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> A commit bit upgrade has never before been announced in the news box.
> This bumped off the Foundation Announcement about the December
> newsletter from the front page of the website.  I think by announce he
> meant a mail to developers at FreeBSD.org, as that is the custom.
> 
> In general, I try to keep other news items here so that new committer
> announcements don't dominate the project news box.  It looks silly to
> have our front page dominated by 'new committer' announcements, which
> are irrelevant for most visitors to our website.  (I still think they
> belong, but I don't want to make the problem worse by also adding
> commit bit upgrades to the box).

I should point out an even better way to approach this problem would
just be to have everyone write more news flashes about the cool stuff
going on around the project.

      - Murray