cvs commit: www/share/sgml events2ics.xsl www/en/events Makefile

[Marc Fonvieille]

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