[Bf-committers] New blog: code.blender.org (proposal)

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Well, people without own blogs can use code.blender.org then (like me ;)

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 8 Nov, 2010, at 18:25, Bassam Kurdali wrote:

> as an alternative, you could consider an aggregator, like what
> jesterking made in planetblender, or planet.gnome.org, etc.
> advantages:
> -you can do cool design
> -has blog-like format
> -can invite only serious svn-write ppl
> -they can tag their posts so only the blender/code related ones are
> aggregated
> -they keep their own blogs - many coders are already blogging  
> somewhere.
>
> disadvantages
> -no comments directly in the planet, ppl have to go to original blog  
> to
> comment.
> -harder to setup than normal wordpress
> -content is not hosted on blender.org, but scattered around
> -some formatting/ embedding of media in original blogs might fail in  
> the
> agregator.
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 18:09 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For temporary docs, work in progress, and other interesting
>> development updates, both blender.org cms and wiki fail to satisfy.
>>
>> Check what developers post on others sites for example. Blogs offer a
>> nice attractive layout, easy to add articles and pictures, and of
>> course the option to post comments.
>>
>> I think of setting up a blog (wordpress) code.blender.org, with
>> following features;
>> - cool design (of course!)
>> - only serious posts, on topic, exclusively for people with svn-write
>> account on Blender
>> - side bar with svn commit history
>> - navigation to tracker, wiki docs, and other stuff that's on
>> projects.b.o now
>>
>> The code.blender.org front end can then become a nice attractive &
>> lively entry point for curious new devs as well.
>>
>> Note: I don't want to force it on developers to use it. More of
>> provide a platform, to ensure all the shattered information on
>> personal websites at least is being collected. But, I would use it to
>> document small new features, instead of doing it on blender.org cms.
>>
>> Feedback welcome.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
>> Netherlands
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