On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:16:45PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> > It reflects the news entries in the repository. When a new LilyPond >> > Report appears, it _is_ announced there. >> >> Yes, it is. However, in the last 20 months only 2 out of 80 items >> were neither a release note nor a Report announcement. That's not a >> wide variety; personally i find this quite boring (however, i >> appreciate that the announcements are made regulargly - this ensures >> our website doesn't appear dead!). > > Look at the news from projects like Debian or Guile. They have > release news and important technical or organizational events.
Well then, let's have some important project news posted. I'll write a note about GSoC, and i think we can make an announcement when Mike&Joe finish new skylines - that's a fairly important project news. On the other hand, look at http://www.gnome.org/news/ http://www.freebsd.org/ - they even list new contributors in the news! >> > The LilyPond Report is the >> > place for more transitory news items of non-technical interest. >> >> I don't agree that LilyPond Report is a place for non-technical /news/ >> of this kind. > > It could be. > >> It's something you read because you're a part of the community, not >> because you want to inform yourself. > > It could be. > >> Additionally, it is released >> monthly - most of the /news/ are not new anymore after a month. > > It could be released more often. Hmm. Isn't it better to have specialization? I'd say that LilyPond Report is meant as a fluffy and informal column (no offense intended, i like it this way!). > Bottom line: I think our website should be a place of solid > technical details and project news. For more "community" news, I > suggest that the LilyPond Report is the best venue. I roughly agree, but how would you classify something like premiere of Valentin's opera? It was clearly a community news, but at the same time i think it was important for the project, as AFAIK it was the first such big, public project done with Lily. Another example: a new edition (created using LilyPond) of some significant work is released (for example something similar to Open Goldberg Variations) - i'd say that it's important news for the project itself. > It can come > out faster or slower, it can have news about baking bread or > concerts, it can contain blinking headlines and pictures of > kittens. Sure, pictures of kittens are not meant for the website :) > It would be nice, of course, if more people worked on it, and it > became even more inclusive. Eluze could interview Colin Hall > about bug handling, then next month they could switch roles; or > they could just joint-write a piece about the joys and pains of > being a (relatively) new Bug Squad member. Colin Campbell could > write about folk music in Alberta and how lilypond is used in > bluegrass music (or not). +1 > I think it needs to come from people other than the main > developers, though. We're all too burnt out and overworked to get > enthusiastic about something like this. Maybe. As for the news, i suggest a following solution: when someone feels like posting some news, he puts the note up for review, which will work mostly as a vote (whether to post it or not). cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
