On 21 Mar 2003, Jeremy White wrote:
Um, Dimi, I am not sure what would be more clear than the proposed 'Latest Release' box right there; that's the latest important news. Right below it are all of the most current headlines, nicely organized through the power of WWN and the very nice work of Brian.
You are avoiding the issue. As I was saying, WWN is great. But it has a different focus/usage pattern. Both magazines (Time, etc.) and news services (CNN, Reuters, etc.) have their purpose, and they are not mutually exclusive. Also, read again through the WWNs: they are 99% directed to developers. And this is GOOD! But we need an announcement place for important events. Again, the status quo is to have such a thing: what is the argument _against_ it?
I can't imagine what else would go in an 'announcements' box down in the center of the page? And who would write it?
When the KDE has a release, they do a press release which would go there. When a WWN is published, a small note would go in there. When Codeweavers, or Transgaming release a product, a pointer to the press release will go in there. It's like a community billboard. These should go there near real time, not wait a week for a new issue of WWN. When the site is updated with a new WWN, or release, or what have you, someone will make an entry there.
Some examples: o http://www.kde.org/ (Latest News) o http://www.gnome.org/ (FootNotes News) o http://www.gimp.org/ (Fresh from the Press) o http://www.xfree86.org/ (News) o http://www.samba.org/ (Samba News) o etc., etc...
The list can go on and on. What project does NOT have such a news area? I would note that most of these projects also have a WWN-like publication. As such, as a matter of policy, I don't think I should be arguing for it, but the argument should be against it if we don't want it. I think it's needed.