On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl> wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote (23-06-11 20:27) > >> * Posting TSC minutes on the blog ... >> + Norbert: wording is very terse, not enough context, not suitable >> for mass public consumption. >> + Suggestion: needs to be expanded, and made more comprehensible, >> someone who wants that can/should do it. > > Short highlights + link to mail archive might be useful too..
I think the problem is not to make them shorter, but to make them 'longer', more digestible for people who do not follow these call and the dev-ML in general. I'm thinking about the difference between reading the linux-kernel mailing list and reading, once a week an highlight of the noticeable, interesting event by Colbert on LWN. The later is a great thing, I enjoy very much reading them... but I, for one, would be completely incapable to do what Jonathan Corbet does, even If I read every email of linux-kernel and had nothing else to do but that... Proper reporting for a wider audience is a skill in and of itself. Giving these 'minutes' as-is to a wider audience is begging for blogger and journalist to mis-understand and mis-quote them. Most of them would not use such minute for a dev ML as a 'source', but if TDF 'publish' them, then it is another ballgame... I mean, looks at what happen, even when communication expert spend time to have a long conversation with a journalist: the headline is 'TDF not production-ready until August'. So now imagine th same journalist, which is very unlikely to scour the dev-ML for info, now get that terse and lingo-prone summary in his rss-feed ? I dare not imagine what the next 'headline' will be.... Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice