On 21 Mar 2003, Jeremy White wrote:
Excuse me, but most of those sites *only* have a news feed, they do not have both a journal and an announcements section.
No, they do have WWN-like publications (see GNOME, KDE) and when they get released an announcement is made.
They all have a common, high profile, source for news and announcements. That's exactly what WWN is.
No, you are missing the point. I've repetead several time why the scope and focus and target audience is different for a "Latest News" and WWN. Same as monthly magazine vs. news channel. Please reply to those, ignoring them every time will not make for a very informative discussion :)
You somehow seem to feel that our users are stupid and can't wade through announcements that don't pertain to them.
What are you talking about here? It's not only a matter of content, as I previously explained. By the same logic maybe Alexandre should not send out the email announcement when a release is made, but instead we should just make a note in WWN that a release happend last week...
Further, Gnome and KDE are rotten examples, because they are really umbrella projects - they contain many sub projects within them. So, for example, it's useful to capture the info regarding Evolution 1.2.3, and Galeon 1.2.9. We do *not* have such a constant stream of different news sources.
We are very much an umbrella project. From a technical standpoint virtually every DLL or app is a separate project. We have over a hundred of those.
I would also like to reiterate: it seems to me that it's not for me to argue for it, but for you to argue against it if you feel strongly. We went through this before, and the conclusion was that we should stick close to status quo unless we have overriding objections. It is very clear to me what the status quo is.