RE: Proposal to make Edge quarterly

Hi Jack, 

> > 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.

OK

> > 	2. Migration to DocBook to make it possible
> > 	   to publish other formats (e.g.. PDF).
> 
> This is a nice idea ... 

Easy to do, see http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/products/openmath/guide/
It is written in DocBook and the PDF is generated ;) I did that a
while ago. But it could serve as a jumping point for maybe the
newsletter or the NetBeans Edge.
 
> > 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 ?

Yeah, it does. Sorry that I missed it ;)

> > 	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 ?

Yeah. Edge issues are scattered around on the CVS server on several
locations. I always need to look where to find the XML sources as 
multiple locations have XML sources ;)

Manfred N. Riem
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