Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:48:42 Stephan Barth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:03:53PM +0100, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > I bet most of you have heard of this website, news.opensuse.org.
> > Sometimes people post random vaguely openSUSE-related stuff there. Now I
> > thought it would be fun to create a team around that - work a bit more
> > structured :D
>
> Excellent idea!
>
> > People with the rights to post there now post whatever they like,
> > whenever they like. Not that that is always a bad thing, but having a
> > little more oversight to guarantee quality and timing would be good (eg
> > 3 articles on one day then nothing for 3 days sucks; and sometimes there
> > is some Germanglish in there too).
>
> Yes, I am also concerned about the frequency of posts there. As an outsider
> I would say that the page is rather dead. I think it should have more
> technical content. Especially about new projects to pull in interested
> people that don't read the mailing lists (yet).
>
> On the other hand it may also be a matter of presentation because there is
> already a lot of stuff in the blogs, twitter, etc. Maybe it might be better
> to aggregate these news sources there or somewhere else?

Henne actually presented something like that at the openSUSE conference: turn 
news.opensuse.org into a kind of aggregator which shows posts selected from 
Planet by the editors. in time, this might indeed be happening - for now we'll 
just try to improve the current news.o.o :D