as an alternative, you could consider an aggregator, like what jesterking made in planetblender, or planet.gnome.org, etc. advantages: -you can do cool design -has blog-like format -can invite only serious svn-write ppl -they can tag their posts so only the blender/code related ones are aggregated -they keep their own blogs - many coders are already blogging somewhere.
disadvantages -no comments directly in the planet, ppl have to go to original blog to comment. -harder to setup than normal wordpress -content is not hosted on blender.org, but scattered around -some formatting/ embedding of media in original blogs might fail in the agregator. On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 18:09 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi all, > > For temporary docs, work in progress, and other interesting > development updates, both blender.org cms and wiki fail to satisfy. > > Check what developers post on others sites for example. Blogs offer a > nice attractive layout, easy to add articles and pictures, and of > course the option to post comments. > > I think of setting up a blog (wordpress) code.blender.org, with > following features; > - cool design (of course!) > - only serious posts, on topic, exclusively for people with svn-write > account on Blender > - side bar with svn commit history > - navigation to tracker, wiki docs, and other stuff that's on > projects.b.o now > > The code.blender.org front end can then become a nice attractive & > lively entry point for curious new devs as well. > > Note: I don't want to force it on developers to use it. More of > provide a platform, to ensure all the shattered information on > personal websites at least is being collected. But, I would use it to > document small new features, instead of doing it on blender.org cms. > > Feedback welcome. > > -Ton- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers