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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    KOffice.org news section
From:       Cyrille Berger <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2010-07-29 7:26:45
Message-ID: 201007290926.46997.cberger () cberger ! net
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Hello,

Since some people have trouble understanding why blogs do not belongs in the 
news section. The main reason is that this section is the *official* voice of 
the koffice project, so what belongs in that section are articles that are 
representative of the whole community, while, blogs by definition are 
representative of one developer opinion. But when a blog appears in the 
*official* channel, it is a one-developer-opinion that is shown as a official 
message. Blogs however will appear in the "blogs" section of the "life 
stream".

This is why, for instance, [1], in its current state do not belongs to the 
front page. I have documented a few rules in [2], they were in the spirit of 
what was discussed during the meeting [3], and are similar to what is used for 
the dot [4].

Lets restate them here (one more time):
* impersonal article, which does not includes the personal opinion of the 
author
* you can get a recurring theme (like "Last Week In KOffice"), but that theme 
need to be discussed with the community and will get a clear mandate (in case 
of lwik, transforms the community activity, mostly commits, into a user 
readable article)
* people are encouraged to write article for the news section, following the 
guidelines expressed in [2] and [4], and to discuss their article before 
publication with the community

If anyone has issues with this, now is the time to give your arguments of why 
things should be different.

[1] http://www.koffice.org/news/philosophical-investigation/
[2] http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Website#News
[3] 
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Meetings/Mid_2010_meeting/Minutes#Website
[4] http://dot.kde.org/content/contact-dot-editors

-- 
Cyrille Berger
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