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

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Wed Nov 17 14:16:36 CET 2010


Hi,

A designated code.blender.org Wordpress install is already there :)
Have to find time for it still... updates follow soon.

-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 16 Nov, 2010, at 20:56, Alex Combas wrote:

> 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.
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