Hi Scott:
So, this gets really "sticky" because the publishing industry would say
that a "book" is a document that consists of a certain number of pages.
I don't remember exactly how many, but I think it something like 30+
pages. I know that Sharan's manufacturing guide is in excess of 30
pages. I also know that she spent many hours on this. By my reckoning,
this is "news". This is the first time that I know of that someone has
written a piece in excess of one or two HTML web pages that speaks
directly about OFBiz manufacturing and MRP features. Isn't that "news"?
I mean isn't that great news! Someone has taken the time to put this
together and is offering it to the public?
Regards,
Ruth
Scott Gray wrote:
I would most definitely class a book about OFBiz as news, it's not like they
get published regularly. Assuming we go ahead and slim down the news section I
would class news as being articles from a reputable news source or items of
significant importance to the community (like a book being published). If
there is ever any doubt about whether or not an item should go in there then I
think we should just discuss it here on the dev or user list as a community.
I still feel like we need some sort of guidelines for the wiki page that the
ex-news items will go into, but I would really like the community to come up
with the guidelines since apparently I'm too biased to be taken seriously.
Regards
Scott
On 17/03/2010, at 6:32 PM, Sharan-F wrote:
Hi David
If that's what the community wants then thats OK with me but I think we need
to define what 'news' is. For example is the book by Packt publishing
classed as news or promotional material? (To me its news but it also
promotes Packt)
I think if there can be any ambiguity then we need something the say what is
acceptable and what is not. If Tim has this covered then great but I'd still
think it would be good to have something written somewhere so we're all
clear on what's what.
Thanks
Sharan
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