[bug#43871] [PATCH website] Add community page

[Luis Felipe via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

Hi,

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On Monday, October 12, 2020 4:41 PM, Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org wrote:

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> We should also have a policy to not link to material that steers towards
> non-free software (I believe the links above are fine).
>
> Last but not least: we should encourage people to submit their things,
> because I’m sure there’s much more we could add here! :-)
>
> That’s all I have to say. Luís, everyone: thoughts?

Well, my idea was to have these kinds of resources grouped according to their types (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-12/msg00356.html). So, instead of a Community resources entry in the Media menu, there would be separate entries like Talks, Papers, etc.

So the Media part of the website could work like the Blog in that you could explore all kinds of media (/lang/media/) or media of some type (e.g. /lang/media/talks/).

Also, at this point you can see that blog posts and media items are resources that usually have a preview with similar information: title, date, summary, etc. Using record types you end up defining one preview procedure for every record type (type->shtml) with pretty much the same body. At that time I was looking for records that allow some kind of inheritance, or GOOPS, to have one preview procedure (or method) that would accept different records/objects with a common ancestor specifying the common fields (title, date, summary, etc.). I tried GOOPS at that time and it worked.

I don't know, I'm still inclined to do it this way...