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Patrick Lauer <patrick <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > I'd like to propose some form of ability to post user comments to GWN |
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> > stories. I suppose a full blown CMS system would work, |
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> (Ab)using a blog for that might work |
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Well, the Gentoo Forums users are already used to its commenting system. |
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Especially with the BBCode in place, which allows a nice formatting of |
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the messages. Blog is a different thing with different rules. |
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Who would like to administer that? |
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> > but for the ease |
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> > of time I'm suggesting that perhaps we open up a GWN section on the forums |
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> > and post the text of the GWN (or perhaps each section) in a new thread |
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> > each week and allow users to write comments. |
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> Sounds like a good idea. |
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This is a COOL idea! A "global" forum with a text-only copy of current GWN |
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would enable more users to actually read it. And adding comments would be |
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even more beneficial. I think that it would be best to place it near the top |
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of forums listing, like this: |
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Assistance |
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News & Announcements |
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Read this before submitting your first post to any forum |
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Gentoo Weekly News |
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The GWN summarizes the key events in the Gentoo project each week. |
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This forum contains a copy of |
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... |
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Adding a sticky thread that explains what GWN is, where it is located [1] and |
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where to get an RSS feed for GWN [2] would be quite fine too. The only problem |
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could be to prevent creating topics in this forum by regular users, and giving |
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the ability to post comments only. |
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Additionally, a script for automatically converting GWN to the forums BBCode |
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format, with a link to the original version (with pictures, mostly) would |
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probably be needed as well. This would be similar to the existing GLSA |
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announcements [3] (GLSA's are both sent via e-mail and posted to the forums |
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right now). |
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I'm positively sure that it wouldn't be that much work, with the obvious |
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benefit for the users. More forum posters would definitely read GWN this way, |
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because, frankly, not every Gentoo user is subscribed to the GWN newsletter. |
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But OTOH they do visit forums more frequently. |
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Best regards, |
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Wiktor Wandachowicz |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |
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[2] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/rss.xml |
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[3] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-16.html |
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