On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:33:03PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Graham Percival >> <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > >> Well then, let's have some important project news posted. I'll write a >> note about GSoC, > > yes.
Done. Wow, i'm mentioned on the front page - 2 times! Awesome! >> and i think we can make an announcement when Mike&Joe >> finish new skylines - that's a fairly important project news. > > No. Information like that goes into the Changes document. You are the project administrator, so the decision is yours. However, please consider that many software projects highlight the most important changes - to bring visitors' interest and to inform them better about the software. Personally, i find the Changes document a sort of emergency checklist: when something doesn't work in a new release, i search it to see if it was a deliberate change and what to do with it. It's just too long to be an interesting lecture, and when i read it, i find that most of the entries are irrelevant to me. I cannot see how this could be of much interest to average user, let alone a casual visitor (whom we want to invite to LilyPond, that's one of the most important goals of the website). >> 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. > > I don't agree. ok, hopefully editions professionally published with LilyPond will become so commonplace that they won't be important at all. But if (hopefully /when/) we launch our own Kickstarter, i'd say that'd be relevant and important to the LilyPond project itself. >> > 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). > > That means that only git people can submit news items? It looks that currently you have to be Graham to submit news ;) or at least have his blessing ;) Being a 'git human' is way easier :) Seriously, though, i just wanted to remind us that it's not only Graham who can write news. It'd be nice to have more than Lily/Report release news on the website, but we cannot require you to be our reporter in addition to being administrator - so, let's join our efforts. > If you really really want to have fluff pieces on the main > lilypond website, I could imagine us using the top right-hand > corner (Mike's "wasted space") for twitter-like announcements of > concerts and editions. +1 it would show not only that our project is alive (release news do that) and usable (productions show that), but also that it's /active/ and /useful/, not just an academic invention of some nerds. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, m...@apollinemike.com <m...@apollinemike.com> wrote: > I'm a fan! I think the no-man's-land @ the top right can be used for all > sorts of announcements no longer than a tweet: new LilyPond reports, > concert, tours, engraving projects, etc.. It can be a rotating thing so > that every time someone signs on, something different pops up. +1 cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
