Re: [dot] Re: Re: 'diversification'

On Friday 29 October 2010 00:51:13 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2010 17:32:06 Carl Symons wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>
> 
> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > >> Interesting idea...I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other
> > >> but here are a few things that come to mind in no particular order:
> > >> 
> > >> - It would probably require less 'editing' work given it's aggregating
> > >> and we can't edit at all in that scenario.  No html code formatting,
> > >> begging for pictures, etc would be nice :)
> > > 
> > > True. However, we could also achieve that by giving everyone on the
> > > Planet editor privileges on the Dot and getting them to upload their
> > > articles directly - presumably we don't do that because we see some
> > > benefit in the editing process. Likewise, we could abandon the two
> > > editors have to check rule, which again would make things quicker at
> > > the expense of perhaps a drop in quality - there would be more typos
> > > etc.
> > > 
> > > (I don't favour any of the above)
> > 
> > I don't favor loose editor privileges. On a recent article, I made a
> > number of changes of "i" to "I". This is an American English error
> > that is natural for a German speaker to make. But that construction
> > doesn't belong in the Dot.
> 
> Please note that the model openSUSE will take would be this:
> 
> The news site becomes a mere aggregator; but the current editors will
> create a new site with the former news articles which will be
> automatically aggregated. On top of that some planet posts will be
> promoted there.
> 
> Basically, if you don't promote any planet posts, nothing changes - and
> nobody would see the difference. However, you could sometimes pick out
> those great planet blogposts and get them on the news site without any
> work :D

Do you have a software tool that can actually do that at the moment (include 
posts you select from the planet) or is there a bit of copying and pasting 
involved? If the latter, how is that better than occasionally copy-pasting 
blog articles on to the Dot?

Anyway, as I said - we (I) will watch with interest for how this works out :-)

Slightly offtopic, we should also harass people who write good posts to write 
something similar for the Dot (I did this once before with Sandro and have 
just asked Tomaz to do the same). Then hopefully next time they consider 
sending the story to the Dot directly.

Cheers,
Stu
 
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