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On Sep 22, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > On 22 September 2011 17:03, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> An interesting new article in Lwn.net by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier. >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/458974/ >> >> There are a couple factual errors there in describing our project: > > Thanks Rob. I assume you have politely pointed the author at your corrections. > > ... > >> Of course, journalists of all stripes are busy people, with deadlines >> and not a lot of time to fact check. So anything we can do to make >> progress on the project more obvious to the casual visitor might be a >> good thing. For example, when we have something as significant as the >> successful Bugzilla migration, maybe that should get a blog post? >> Maybe we can try to establish a regular cadence of posts, say every >> two weeks? > > +1 > > It would be great if someone would script the inclusion of these > headlines into the homepage of the project site too (via the blog RSS > feed). I've studied how this is done on www.apache.org. We could aggregate recent issues, commits and blogs. This would be crond scripted in a people (or other) account to republish every hour. I'm on vacation and will stat thinking about this more seriously next week. Dave > > I wonder if it is also worth setting up a "planet" for OO.o > contributors. We have http://planet.apache.org/, but this is across > the whole foundation. If we could have, say, planet-ooo.apache.org > then we could aggregate committers appropriately tagged feeds. > > Ross > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
