From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:09:22 -0500 Message-ID: <16e5b3a122c.b7a4e4e434310.6522244193615758497@zoho.com> References: <87h83lywwx.fsf@cbaines.net> <16e41d9d6ad.11f469b7122421.8167063373669474589@zoho.com> <875zjvzcp2.fsf@cbaines.net> <16e47e550c8.d7a7b31e8461.1692456426007496507@zoho.com> <87y2wp7y4t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40431) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iUCG6-0000AH-AF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:09:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iUCG4-0005Pf-2D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:09:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y2wp7y4t.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?=22Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s=22?= Cc: Christopher Baines , guix-devel ---- On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:38 -0500 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s = wrote ---- > Hello,=20 > =20 > sirgazil skribis:=20 > =20 > > > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as ent= ries=20 > > > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries?=20 > > >=20 > > > Right, that's something I didn't really consider.=20 > > >=20 > > > Thinking about it now, I think it's worth considering though. What= =20 > > > advantages and disadvantages do you think they'd be for integrating= this=20 > > > in to the website?=20 > > >=20 > > > For advantages, I can think of:=20 > > >=20 > > > - Easier to have a consistent visual style=20 > > > - Easier to provide a combined Atom feed for regular and weekly po= sts=20 > >=20 > > Yes, I was thinking about these too. People already subscribed to Guix= blog wouldn't have to subscribe to another news feed.=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > > As for disadvantages:=20 > > >=20 > > > - Might make the website more complicated, doing partially automat= ed=20 > > > weekly news stuff as well=20 > >=20 > > No, I mean, your news application could be independent of the static w= ebsite 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 di= rectory in guix-artwork.git so that your application wouldn't have to worr= y about the presentation part...=20 > =20 > Sounds like an nice idea.=20 > =20 > A potential concern for me is that these posts might be of relatively=20 > =E2=80=9Clow quality=E2=80=9D compared to the articles we usually publis= h (since they=E2=80=99d=20 > be partially generated), and they would also outnumber those articles.= =20 > I wonder if this could leave a bad impression when visiting=20 > guix.gnu.org/blog.=20 Well, I actually think that that would be fine. I think the blog is appropr= iate 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 announci= ng article publications). > Or perhaps we just need to display those entries separately from those= =20 > that do not have the GWN tag or something?=20 I don't know about that... :)