Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:56:48 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/news news.xml Message-ID: <20060213215648.GC20768@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20060213215407.GB20768@freebsdmall.com> References: <200601312347.k0VNltZ6090432@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060213215407.GB20768@freebsdmall.com>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:54:07PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> A commit bit upgrade has never before been announced in the news box.
> This bumped off the Foundation Announcement about the December
> newsletter from the front page of the website. I think by announce he
> meant a mail to developers@FreeBSD.org, as that is the custom.
>
> In general, I try to keep other news items here so that new committer
> announcements don't dominate the project news box. It looks silly to
> have our front page dominated by 'new committer' announcements, which
> are irrelevant for most visitors to our website. (I still think they
> belong, but I don't want to make the problem worse by also adding
> commit bit upgrades to the box).
I should point out an even better way to approach this problem would
just be to have everyone write more news flashes about the cool stuff
going on around the project.
- Murray
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