New subdirectory "news" on our web server

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < Pine.GSO.4.10.9906211402280.14589-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
>you write:
  > The CVS stuff is a good example.
  > 
  > For files like cvs.html that start as part of an announcement, but remain
  > useful for direct reference from the main page, I suggest to put/keep them
  > in the main directory, but change their announcement character to a more
  > documentation like later on.
OK.

  > In particular, I think we should refrain from modifying announcements, as
  > long as they appear as such.
Other than tweaking links as they move around, I totally agree.

With this in mind we probably want to put a little more thought into how
we write announcements so that stuff we want to use longer term is date/time
neutral and written more along the lines of documentation than as a news item.


Further in the back of my mind is the desire to have pages for both
developers and users which describe internal architecture and optimizations
(this is to supplement the manual).  At that point stuff like alias.html,
lcm.html and other news items turn into a form of online documentation about
what the optimizations do, how they're implemented and the like.  But that's a
ways off.

A little more near term, I'll be giving a talk next month to a local Linux
users group.  Some of that material should probably appear on the web page
in one form or another (who we are, what we've done, where we're going,
that kind of stuff).

jeff