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

[Murray Stokely]

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.

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).

> 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.

> 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.

	- Murray