The banner is indeed driven by RSS so we would lose that. Also push driven news persons would not go regularly to GitHub to see if anything is new.
I forgot with who I was discussing that but we do miss a list of the releases and their announcements. If the GitHub thing can be automated, that would be a nice complement to a regular blog announcement. It would complement nicely the new blog infra as you could reuse the same text and script that process. On hosting distributions on GitHub, I still have a bitter taste when GitHub pulled the plug on release hosting the last time around. I don’t think we should trust them on this one. Emmanuel > On 28 May 2015, at 04:47, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > At the moment we write release announcements using in.relation.to and then > announce in other mediums by posting that link. We all agree (more or > less) that the wiki editor and rendering on there leaves much to be desired. > > Brett had mentioned a long time ago about GitHub and its release > capabilities and tonight I went back and looked at them again. I created a > more descriptive release announcement in GitHub then its default of just > using the tag message for this 5.0.0.CR1 release just to see how it worked > out. Here are the 2 links for comparison: > > * http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM500CR1Release > * https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/5.0.0.CR1 > > There are a few things to notice here. First, I think we can all agree > that the second looks considerably better. Also, there is a lot to be said > for these being closely available from the source repo. > > Another thing to note is that the GitHub release has the ability to attach > random zips and tgz. I have not taken advantage of that as I felt bad > uploading our 62 and 97 Mb release bundles here just for a PoC. I do have > a task for myself post 5.0 to re-think how we build these release > bundles[1]. But ultimately whether it makes sens to attach them here comes > down to whether we think SF and its FRS has any advantage. I think > download statistics will be the only discussion point there. > > Anyway, moving forward I plan to move to this approach for release > announcements. > > The only sticky point is the sourcing for the banners on hibernate.org. > What drives that? RSS? > > Thoughts? > > [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-9828 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
