[advocacy-discuss] Opensolaris.org "News" WTF??

[Glynn Foster]

On 12/07/2008, at 11:26 AM, Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2008, at 7:20 PM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>
>> Good point.  If there is no intent to keep the materials current (&
>> at least try to make an appearance that we care), why bother to show
>> it and embarrass us all?
>
>> Perhaps we can try to find some way to at least link the space that
>> is currently used by OpenSolaris News to Sun's blogs that carry the
>> OpenSolaris tag.  This is what many of us are doing any way.
>> Streamlined and saves time.
>
> I think that using RSS feeds to populate a News section is, while
> convenient, a mistake. Stuff that shows up can be arbitrary and, as
> one entry currently on the site shows, can be unwanted.

Actually, the news entries are just single URLs, with a date and  
description. The only RSS that is used is to populate the front page.  
Clearly, the current news item is probably somewhat of a mistake, but  
I'm now kinda loathe to remove it (wonder what the reaction would  
be?). I'm treating it as a driving force for my work on 2008.11, and  
awesome feedback on where we should be putting more focus.


Glynn