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

[Michael McLay]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> For temporary docs, work in progress, and other interesting
> development updates, both blender.org cms and wiki fail to satisfy.
>


> 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.
>
> But, I would use it to
> document small new features, instead of doing it on blender.org cms.
>

If the primary purpose of the blog is simply to "Document small new
features", then there is an alternative available that could serve this
purpose. I just created an example
blueprint<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/blender>on launchpad that
describes how a blueprint could be used to achieve most of
the goals outlined for code.blender.org.