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Jason Gerlowski commented on SOLR-16833:
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bq. There are many places that can host some random blog post (e.g. Medium);
why go through the effort & stewardship responsibilities of even bothering
doing so here
The two biggest reasons in my mind are:
1. *Inclusiveness*: Requiring all posts be hosted elsewhere shrinks the set of
potential authors pretty drastically down to those folks who already have some
other blog set up. I imagine there's a lot of folks out there who don't fall
into that camp: students, contributors whose employers restrict personal social
media activity, etc. Even a lot of long-term community members (like myself)
don't have a technical blog. "Host it on your own blog" is a big ask for a lot
of folks; probably enough to prevent contribution altogether.
2. *Simplicity*: I'm no expert, but creating an extra Pelican template or two
feels like much less work (up front) than integrating some sort of external
blog aggregator into solr-site. It
bq. Most folks writing content are writing it for some reason, and so they are
going to want to host content.
I think Jan's point re: "A blog section on our site could host both." is really
key here.
I think that should be our goal: something flexible enough to handle both types
of posts/authors. Ideally we could support folks hoping that helpful Solr
content would bring folks onto their own site, while still making it easy for
folks to contribute who don't have some pre-existing site/blog.
> Apache Solr's blog
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>
> Key: SOLR-16833
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-16833
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ishan Chattopadhyaya
> Priority: Major
>
> Context: [~dep4b] reached out to me regarding my previous proposal for a
> community blog. Perhaps he wants to spearhead this? Thanks Eric! My dad is
> unwell, so I'll be out of action for another week. This is just a quick
> jotting down of my notes regarding my thoughts, plans.
>
> Proposal:
> Apache Solr should have an official blog. We should blog on the official blog
> often, regarding features, tips/tricks etc. To this effect, [~dsmiley] and I
> agreed over a call that he will volunteer to write frequent Solr news (what
> happened in past month) type posts.
> To set us up with this, I had planned to start a blog seciton on our page,
> using some pelican theme. Unfortunately, life intervened before I could start.
> We should do something like this
> ([https://snipcart.com/blog/pelican-blog-tutorial-search-comments)] and add
> section in our current Solr site (solr-site repo).
> Post that, all posts could be written up as PRs to that repo, and approving
> it can publish the blog post to the site. I think we already have necessary
> plumbing to have staging and prod for the pelican site, so all this should be
> easy to do operationally.
> Another aspect would be that non-committers can also submit PRs to publish
> blog posts, which could be super cool.
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