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Re: Patch: FYI: gcj news items for web page
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
I agree, its important for GCJ's identity to have its own news section. The
rate of news updates is, unfortunately, too light - Requiring
"patch-and-review" for news items definitely works against it.
Well, if you want
It would certainly be really cool to use the wiki or have a more
blog-like way of posting new news items and aggregating them.
Don't let us go down that road please. Wiki is fine for some stuff,
but for really official documentation we should take the wwwdocs route.
I think there is a difference between the official documentation and the
website content. The official documentation is the GCC manual. This
could be thought of as the specification of GCC, and I agree that should
be kept fairly rigid. The content of the website falls into a different
categories, however - news items, HOWTOs for beginners, status updates
for various projects. For most of these things I don't think it makes
sense to maintain rigid control over updates. Quite the opposite, they
would become much better resources and be more valuable for the project
if information were allowed to flow a bit more freely. By adding the
ability to do quick, easy, wiki-style live updates the content could
stay a lot more current and pertinent.
Regards
Bryce