Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

sirgazil <address@hidden> 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.

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

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.