---- On Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:33:38 -0500 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote ----
> Hello, > > sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> skribis: > > > > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries? > > > > > > Right, that's something I didn't really consider. > > > > > > Thinking about it now, I think it's worth considering though. What > > > advantages and disadvantages do you think they'd be for integrating > > this > > > in to the website? > > > > > > For advantages, I can think of: > > > > > > - Easier to have a consistent visual style > > > - Easier to provide a combined Atom feed for regular and weekly posts > > > > Yes, I was thinking about these too. People already subscribed to Guix > > blog wouldn't have to subscribe to another news feed. > > > > > > > As for disadvantages: > > > > > > - Might make the website more complicated, doing partially automated > > > weekly news stuff as well > > > > No, I mean, your news application could be independent of the static > > website code in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git. > > But I was thinking that maybe it could push the generated news to the > > posts directory in guix-artwork.git so that your application wouldn't > > have to worry about the presentation part... > > Sounds like an nice idea. > > A potential concern for me is that these posts might be of relatively > “low quality” compared to the articles we usually publish (since they’d > be partially generated), and they would also outnumber those articles. > I wonder if this could leave a bad impression when visiting > guix.gnu.org/blog. Well, I actually think that that would be fine. I think the blog is appropriate for these kinds of publications. Maybe it's the articles which should have a special place in the website (and there would be blog posts announcing article publications). > Or perhaps we just need to display those entries separately from those > that do not have the GWN tag or something? I don't know about that... :)
