Dave Miner wrote: > Jon Aimone wrote: > > >I understand resolving the immediate issue for this community, but it > >occurs to me that other groups/projects/etc. could benefit from a more > >general solution to this problem... I presume the ON flag day/heads up > >page is manually maintained. > > Yes, they are manually maintained, and I'm not in a position to throw > any more effort at this problem.
Perhaps things have changed, but when I left the ON GK position, they were maintained automatically. There was some manual cleanup required from time to time, but the pages were maintained by a set of scripts that parsed the mail coming in to the list where flag days and heads ups were sent, modified and created pages as required, and did the synchronization between the internal and external copies. I imagine that's going to change some with the website redesign, but the general concept should continue to work. Whether or not that's the right thing for this community is up to the community. Dave's proposed something similar to the ON flag-day page, but I could see an RSS/Atom feed being appropriate, either in addition, or as a replacement. The mechanism for populating either one could be manual update of a page, or a write-only mailing list, or something more structured. Danek
