cvs commit: www/en/news news.xml

[Murray Stokely]

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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:25:09PM +0100, Joel Dahl 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.
> 
> This has actually happened before, netchild announced his enhanced commit
> privileges back in March 2005.  :-)

Ahh OK.  I'm tempted to implement a more automated solution to this.
Maybe we could write some XSLT to fetch the 2 newest "new committer"
entries from news.xml and the 3 newest non-"new committer" entries and
then use that instead of the 5 newest entries no matter what they
contain.  Then we never have a front page full of new committer
notices (which looks like we have no real news) but still advertise
our new committers.

At the same time we could maybe fetch the newest entry from the java
or gnome individual news.xml files, since those also are seldom copied
to the front page.

       - Murray