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.
Right. I agree that WWN serves a completely different purpose than a News feed would. And I agree that a separate News feed would be useful.
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
That's a terrible example to use since Jeremy has done a great job of always having the latest CVS drop on the front page. If you're talking of consolidating the "Latest Release" and "News" headings, then I really don't care. I think one of the primary goals of WineHQ should be to put the software into the hands of users, and anything that makes that easier furthers the goal. Separating out the "Latest Release" and having two different download pages for "Binaries" and "Source" seems to do that. It definitely draws attention to getting the software.
I think what you're getting at for news is we could (and should) announce things like:
http://www.franksworld.net/wgm/
Hopefully in the future there will be more things like that.
However, I'm definitely against announcing things like this:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/press_releases/?id=20030113 http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=4 http://www.xandros.com/release6.html
None specifically mentions "Wine", however that's clearly behind their product. So at what point do you draw the line? Trust me, it's a pain in the ass to figure out. For WWN I'd rather err on the side of covering anything vaguely related to Wine, for the front page of WineHQ I don't think you want things like that, nor do you want to pick and choose what press releases get added.
However, to confuse things, I think things like this definitely qualify as news:
http://www.musicmatch.com/info/company/press/releases/?year=2001&release...
So maybe here's the rule: if the primary business of your company is Wine development (TG, CW), or Wine is a core technology (Lindows.com) the most press you're going to get on WineHQ is from WWN. However, if you've utilized Wine to some how add value to a new or existing product then we'll announce it on the front page, at least the initial release. Just putting the word "Wine" in your press release doesn't count either way.
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