On March 23, 2003 03:28 pm, Jeremy White wrote:
Pronouncing something to be true does not make it so.
Correct. Also, refusing to accept evidence, and invoking irrelevant differences doesn't make it false either. :)
Having a 'fresh' section with news is a common practice, yes. Having *more than one* is extremely rare. Of your 5 examples, only Gnome and KDE have that.
All this is irrelevant of course -- I've asked you to produce those important projects that don't have a "Latest News". Some may also have a synthesis publication, but they all have a news section.
Ohh... I've had too much fun arguing this :) It was all in good fun, I'll stop here. <g>
I enjoy sparring with you, Dimi (and yes, I do it with a smile, so no offense taken or intented <grin>; it'd be nicer to do it over a beer, but then that's the Wineconf issue).
Indeed. And the same goes here -- I do get caught in the discussion easily, but I don't take thing personally :) Here's for a virtual handshake!
Brian has told me off list that he'd be willing to be the collective PR person (i.e. take in announcements and such) and post them more frequently (he already collates more than once a week).
Brain is The Man! We do need a PR person, the time for 0.9/1.0 is approaching, as such we need press releases, etc.
However, to do that, he needs some tools. He has trouble with his CVS connection, so he has requested that someone build him a web page where he can enter news items that go into the WWN.
It seems fair.
So, here is the call for a volunteer: someone work with Brian to help him get WWN stuff committed to CVS, a tool to let folks submit entries for annoucncing, and a tool to commit entries more rapidly than he does, and give Jer a tool to scrape the XML and craft an announcements section.
For starters, how about: -- tool for submitting announcments: email to the editor (Brian) -- tool for committing announcments: a non-public web page -- tool for scraping XML: will produce the XML needed to render the Announcement box. He can then use this to render the HTML for the box.
I have basic design in mind, simple and elegant (:P), I just need a bit of help with the PHP side of things (very simple stuff), as I have 0 experience with it.
So I guess I volunteer...