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

[Alex Combas]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Michael McLay <mclay at mjmoi.com> wrote:

> 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.



I'm only one person, so I only speak for myself but I would must prefer a
personalized Blender Foundation hosted blog than some launchpad application.
That way the Blender Foundation maintains complete control over the look
and
feel and uptime of the site.

Just my 2 cents.