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 :)