Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

---- On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:38 -0500 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote ----

 > Hello, 
 >  
 > sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> skribis: 
 >  
 > >  > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries 
 > >  > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries? 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Right, that's something I didn't really consider. 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Thinking about it now, I think it's worth considering though. What 
 > >  > advantages and disadvantages do you think they'd be for integrating this 
 > >  > in to the website? 
 > >  > 
 > >  > For advantages, I can think of: 
 > >  > 
 > >  >  - Easier to have a consistent visual style 
 > >  >  - Easier to provide a combined Atom feed for regular and weekly posts 
 > > 
 > > Yes, I was thinking about these too. People already subscribed to Guix blog wouldn't have to subscribe to another news feed. 
 > > 
 > > 
 > >  > As for disadvantages: 
 > >  > 
 > >  >  - Might make the website more complicated, doing partially automated 
 > >  >  weekly news stuff as well 
 > > 
 > > No, I mean, your news application could be independent of the static website code in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git. But I was thinking that maybe it could push the generated news to the posts directory in guix-artwork.git so that  your application wouldn't have to worry about the presentation part... 
 >  
 > Sounds like an nice idea. 
 >  
 > A potential concern for me is that these posts might be of relatively 
 > “low quality” compared to the articles we usually publish (since they’d 
 > be partially generated), and they would also outnumber those articles. 
 > I wonder if this could leave a bad impression when visiting 
 > guix.gnu.org/blog. 

Well, I actually think that that would be fine. I think the blog is appropriate for these kinds of publications. Maybe it's the articles which should have a special place in the website (and there would be blog posts announcing article publications).


 > Or perhaps we just need to display those entries separately from those 
 > that do not have the GWN tag or something? 

I don't know about that... :)