Hi! Now that I got your full attention and other possible interested people had time to subscribe to this list, it's about time to get some work done. But before we do so, I think it's necessary to clarify the current status: Currently two persons may send mails to debian-news@lists.debian.org. These are Joey Schulze and myself. So far I acted more or less as "backup", and considering the date of last DWN, I think it's time for the backup to jump in. Since my first mail doesn't seem to have been as clear as I thought, I would like to point out, that I don't consider times.debian.net [1] or the DeveloperNews [2] a bad idea or done in a bad way. I just think, that they are not a full replacement of what DWN was. I think those three, times.d.n, DWN and DeveloperNews complement each other, since every one has a different focus: DeveloperNews are sent to debian-developer-announce and target as audience developers, maintainers and "power users". They don't reach Joe Average and their topic isn't that interesting for him (and might be to technical for him to understand). IMHO times.debian.net is a nice place for longer stories, which are more or less of general interest, but too long for a newsletter. successtories, event reports and similar things should still go there. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't mention them in the Project News ;) Just for completenes I would like to mention planet.debian.org of which I have heard in the past, that it would be kind of replacement for the DWN. Actually I consider planet to be more like the chating during the lunch in the companies cantina. Since we are neither a company, nor a cantina we have planet. Some use it for private chatting, some for project planing, but in no way it's something official -- not to mention that there are people out there, who don't like blogs and consider reading planet a waste of time. (Which doesn't mean we shouldn't link to interesting posts there.) So much for a small overview. Now to thje interesting topic: How the work should be done IMHO: I think it is very important for the success of the Project News to keep the entry barrier low; people able to write or proofread are not necessary those who are able to use those nifty revision control systems. So I think we should go for wiki.debian.org -- after all wikis where made to maintain texts. So I startet by creating http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews and some pages linked from there. The current workflow in my head would be the following: - Someone sees something interesting and reports it to this list - It's picked up by an editor, and added to http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/Issues/Current - Native english readers can review it constantly and improve it - After two weeks it's sent to debian-news Sounds simple, but while the last step currently needs to be done by me, I would hope the first two aren't done by myself alone ;) What I think would be nice to have, but not of major importance for the start are translations. We have all those nice debian-news-foobar mailing lists, and it would be a shame to not use them. Sadly I have quite limited knowledge about (coordinated) translation efforts, and don't know who has the rights to send mails to those locale news lists. So if you would like to translate the news, please speak up now and join the discussion. AFAIK the Weekly News where frozen at some point to give translators time for their job; how much time before release the news would you need? Other things we should keep in mind are, that we once had enough stuff for weekly news. So we should try to get them out weekly again. And of course I would like to see SPOFs and other bottlenecks removed before I'm burned out ;) Comments? Questions? Improvements? Links: 1: http://times.debian.net/ 2: http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Yours sincerely, Alexander
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