Also, I am serious about the "Latest News" box. We need an agreement -- what about a patch implementing the idea, so people can have a more informed opinion?
Here's my $.02:
I think the "Wine Weekly News" heading on the right should just be changed to "News". Instead of something like "Issue: 162" maybe it should say something like "Wine Weekly News #162". Interspersed with the WWN issues can be other news, for example the interviews that will start going up next week. Over time I'm sure there will be things of interest to add there.
As far as the News section that goes into WWN, I don't think it's appropriate to break those items out into their own announcements. For one thing, the same XML goes to www.kerneltraffic.org and I'm going to continue having the first section be News. The bigger problem is announcing commercial development projects. I'm sure we'd all agree that TransGaming and CodeWeavers announcements would be fine to add, but there's a lot of gray area outside of that. For example, Lindows.com had (has) a press release about once a week. They made it into quite a few WWN issues before I stopped covering them. Splashing press releases on the front page doesn't necessarily make it news. I'll still have most of that stuff in the WWN anyway.
So.. my vote is for a general "News" box that will mostly end up containing WWN issues, the interview series that's going to stretch through summer, and any other items that are non-commercial (updates to the status page, etc). Maybe if we could get people using the app DB we could put a news heading like "How to Install IE 5.5" and link to instructions in the app DB.
PS. I love the "got Wine?" banner
-brian
On March 22, 2003 12:16 am, Brian Vincent (C) wrote:
So.. my vote is for a general "News" box that will mostly end up containing WWN issues, the interview series that's going to stretch through summer, and any other items that are non-commercial (updates to the status page, etc). Maybe if we could get people using the app DB we could put a news heading like "How to Install IE 5.5" and link to instructions in the app DB.
OK, but we're now discussing policy. In other words, I suggest we should be more liberal with announcements, you suggest we're more conservative. That's a different issue. Of course, most of the items that you cover (mainly threads of discussion in wine-devel) have no business as News items. However, as I already said several times, I think there are other things that qualify as News: Wine releases, Commercial releases, community events. Yes, they should also show up in the WWN, no question about it. And that is as it should be, it's one thing to post a Headline news on Monday saying Mon Apr, 1: Wine 20030401 is out [link] - kernel/ntdll separation complete - ...
And another to have an item in the Saturday WWN that is so nicely commented by you, and put into some context. As you can see the two differ: * content: the headline is dry, small, just let's people know that a new release is out, while the WWN usually has a nice little commentary, context, maybe some reactions, etc. * timing: the headline goes on the site when the release is made, WWN is out 5 days later So no, there's not that much duplication. Imagine if KDE released a new version Monday, but they would not make any announcement until KDE-CVS-Digest was out, or one of the other weekly publications :)
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