Re: Proposal to make Edge quarterly

Hello Manfred,

Manfred N. Riem wrote:
> I am proposing to make the NetBeans Edge quarterly. Why?
> Well, I can think of several reasons, here are a few:

Interesting idea ... in terms of being able to come up with
the content each month, unfortunately you are probably right.
I would of course rather we were able to create a good issue
every month ... This is really a marketing decision, so I'll
leave it to Rob to comment.  We may be able to get more 
marketing help internally to help produce the Edge.

> 	2. Migration to DocBook to make it possible
> 	   to publish other formats (e.g.. PDF).

This is a nice idea ... 

> Some website related issues with respect to the NetBeans
> Edge and the NetBeans Sprout:
> 
> 	1. Move issues older than a year ago to an archive.

We already have something like this ... the 10 most recent
issues are on the main newsletter page :

   http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/index.html

Anything older than 10mths is on the arvhive :

   http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/edge-archive.html

The same idea is in place for the weekly - last 10 weeks are
shown on the index.html page, and full archive is shown 

   http://www.netbeans.org/community/news/newsletter/archive.html

(I know that page is big, but I don't think it makes sense to
create a "really old archive" page as well ...).

Do you think this works OK ?

> 	2. Move everything to one location, some of the 
> 	   content is now scattered.

Not sure what you mean ... I know the xml for eg is in a strange
old location.  Is that what you mean ?


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