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

On Friday 29 October 2010 10:48:29 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> 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?

There is a tool, but I'll get back to you guys once I really know more...

> 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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