Hi, in the "Twitter"-thread this week on the devel ML we had a discussion about how we could make a serious and regular "news"-section for E.org, not only external on twitter/facebook/etcpp. I already did some suggestions, but now I'd like to make it more concrete: As I see it, it would be best to have the news in a kind of digest form, not a lot of single items (that is what the existing twitter feed can be used for). Many projects do it based on a regular date - be it weekly, monthly or per quarter - I think this concept would be also great for E. As the twitter feed contains many small things of all kind, I think the news on E.org should be only more relevant stuff for the users (not developers!) that do not want to read the mailinglists, twitter-feeds, and similar on a regular basis. Of course this doesn't mean developers should be completely left out - big stuff like bigger API-changes could be also announced that way (but not every trivial thing, that's what the SVN commit list is for).
E.org currently has a news section, but it is not well maintained, or let's say it is only used for big announcements (it only contains big releases like new EFL/E snapshots, EWL releases, the SVN move and so on). So I think this section should be renamed to "Announcements", because this is what it is used for. Big Ass Announcements. Additionally there should be the "News" section for stuff that matters but isn't _that_ important. That's where I'd like to see what I said above. I think Weekly News would fit for E, because users have regular information about interesting things (and there are a lot of interesting things in a week or two) and it is not too much overkill like daily or per-item based news. If there should be a week with not that much changes it could be temporarily bi-weekly. As I said in the twitter thread: I'd be free to write this if you think it's useful. But even better would be if it could be more collaborative. So we could use the SVN, the Wiki (probably the best way), or if you don't want it there my personal public git (with write access for everyone interested in taking part) to collect all interesting stuff over the week and post it at Sunday evening on E.org and probably as digest on the E-Users ML. Here's how I imagine it: ________________________________________________________________ Enlightenment Weekly News 2009/20 ================================= SVN News: --------- The drawer-module received initial support for composite plugins (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40644) and a winlist plugin (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40666). Sergey Semernin is working hard on E's file manager and it definitely pays off: E_fm2 now has full support for in-place renaming and custom per-directory backgrounds (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40668). There have been a lot more patches from him which are or are not yet in SVN. Community News: --------------- Gustavo Barbieri is planning to rework the notification (libnotify) module and would like to drop the shelf-gadget of the module. If this feature is important to you, feel free to take part in the discussion on both mailinglists ("notification module: how do you use it?"). Massimiliano Calamelli started a Twitter-feed about E development. If you're not following the SVN commits (or probably even if) this is a great source for all sort of new stuff in or around E. Inofficial chances to meet E developers: Raster will be on a trip through Europe between may 19th and june 9th. For more information check the ML ("berlin/paris/berne... who's around?") - and don't forget to bring your sticks! Gustavo will be at Ubuntu Dev Summit in Barcelona (19-31 May). Don't miss your chance to get your own SPANK SPANK shirt! ________________________________________________________________ Please share your opinion, thomasg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
