Re: Gnotices Archives -> Keep Comments?

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 01:17, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> gnomedesktop.org is independent from gnome.org, and can say what it wants.
> That's cool. It can have it's unofficial support forums and all that kind of
> stuff, and have opinion pieces on the news site that are not 'the official
> voice of GNOME'. That's great, it keeps us honest.
> 
> But then, who speaks for GNOME? A low volume official feed on gnome.org
> acting as the official news/voice of The GNOME Project and/or Foundation
> (with a defined group of editors) could do that very well.
> 
> (There's also a series of newsfeeds in all of the subsites like usability,
> docs, etc. that will be integrated into the one publishing system, instead
> of being written up in seven different ways, and no way to get at all of
> them aside from visiting each area.)
> 
> We're still going to have news sources on gnome.org, and we do need an
> official voice. That doesn't mean that gnomedesktop.org isn't cool, or will
> be sidelined, they just have different purposes.

When I said annoying, I didn't mean that having an independant thing was
annoying, rather that having multiple news sources was annoying. This is
the reason that /. did so well. It collected all the "interesting" news
on one site, so people didn't have to go look for it.

Will gnomedesktop be linked from the front page, or will it be only
available to the cognoscenti? Like sunshineinabag.co.uk.

I am just afraid that all the effort that has been put into gnomedesktop
will be a) duplicated and b) wasted in our NIH desire for websites. And
nothing you've said yet has reassured me.

As an aside to show that we don't have to do everything: kde doesn't
seem to have this problem and is quite happy to have their application
lists run by an unoffically official independant site (kde.com)

iain
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