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Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis
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sirgazil |
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Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis |
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Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:09:22 -0500 |
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---- On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:38 -0500 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote
----
> 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.
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... :)
Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/11/06
Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis, sirgazil, 2019/11/06