Chris Little wrote: > > Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> Chris Little wrote: >>> I don't think >>> the news section belongs within the CrossWire site as opposed to the >>> Sword site (but we can discuss that in IRC). >> Strongly disagree - the news content goes already way beyond Sword, >> includes Jsword, various front ends and more. Option one would be to >> narrow it down to SWORD proper or option two - more naturally - is to >> move it to CW and open it up a bit. > > I disagree entirely.
Ok. > ... and approximately 5% other news (site news, FlashCards news, etc.). At which point it should be in CW. Or out. > > My take on CrossWire is that it basically consists of The SWORD Project, > FlashCards, (maybe) JSword, and hopefully some additional projects if > Troy can get people to actually volunteer. I say maybe JSword, because > that arguably falls under The SWORD Project--and I think it's to > everyone's advantage to simply ignore the underlying technology and > assume that it does. All of the frontends fall under The SWORD Project, > in terms of news. I don't really see an alternative perspective as to > what The SWORD Project _is_, if things like BT, GS, BibleCS, MacSword, > (possibly JSword, BD, etc.), and modules don't fall under the "The SWORD > Project" umbrella. This is what I had been banging on for a few days now - the lack of definition and clarity on separation of CW and Sword project. There are two ways of looking at it - Sword Project narrow and wide narrow - SWORD engine + JSword + modules + developer set up wide - everything but flashcards, tesseract projects etc. In absence of a response to several emails on this list I took in the end a decision, which is obviously subject to being reversed again if necessary. I favoured the narrow perspective. It makes more sense to me, though obviously not to you. > The same goes for making the Sword forums into the CrossWire forums, > which I've seen mentioned once or twice. I think that is a completely > wrong-headed idea. Absolutely none of the forums have anything to do > with anything other than The SWORD Project. Narrow or wide? Narrow no. Wide yes. > I don't think this aspect of re-organization achieves anything other > than to de-emphasize the news by putting it on a less prominent page and > to change from our more prominent brand "The SWORD Project" to a less > prominent one "The CrossWire Bible Society". Which brand is more prominent from the outside? To state it bluntly whenever I mention the SWORD project, people start talking through me and ramble on about e-sword. When I mention CrossWire, they listen. Wrt de-emphasizing - right now I think the website is slowly getting into a place where it again emphasizes something other than that we are probably dead. So, no I do not agree. Anyway. My suggestion is that we tag the news in some form in the database and allow several places to have news streams on display. I guess that would satisfy everyone. Allow me a few more days. Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
