Debian Publicity Team Audits and Standards (phase II)
Hello Everyone,
After considerable delay the second phase of the bits[1] blog repository
and webpage is underway. A review of the work done in the first phase follows.
The Publicity team is in the process of housekeeping our repositories
and manners of presentation. To that end we have reached phase two which sees
the bits tag and category system refocused. There was a review of the currently
used blog tags and a proposal for new categories framed around those older tags
with some newer tags added.
For an overview of the work please see '2024 Audit of bits.d.o posts tags'[2].
This tag audit is open to anyone who has a good idea of how we can better
categorize, index, or combine some of the tag and categories. The proposed tag
list is still quite lengthy and should honestly be shortened a bit; conversely
considering the many announcements we have made on the blog over the years
perhaps the tags should be even further expanded? Thoughts and comments appreciated.
Interested in helping out? If so, respond to this email, join us on
#debian-publicity[3], or if you have access commit a change or proposal directly.
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Phase I
Using the bits repository, reorganize the directory structures to something that
is forward facing for archival needs, ease of asset location, and presentation.
Phase II
Make changes needed for better tagging, categorizing, and archiving via a large
scale audit.
Phase III
Mirror the changes from the 'working' repository (bits), against all of our
repositories. This will become part of our standards in line with our
'Publicity Standards' work.
Phase IV
Continue our work on Standards and once completed push our standards upstream
across Debian as official project standards for areas of communication.
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Phase I - Completed
The first stage was to reorganize the directory structure used, making uniform
where information is stored and to that same effect where it can be readily
found. That process focused on laying a foundation for forward facing work only
as I believe due to permalinks we cannot go back too far with directory
additions and/or changes.
For example the old directory structure lumped everything inside of one directory:
/bits/content}: $> ls 2023
bookworm-released.md
debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md
new-developers-2023-02-hi-IN.md
new-developers-2023-08-hi-IN.md
bookworm-released-pl.md
dpb-2023-08-fr.mdnew-developers-2023-02.md
new-developers-2023-08.md
debconf23-closes-fr.md
dpb-2023-08.md
new-developers-2023-02-pt.md
new-developers-2023-08-pl.md
debconf23-closes.md
dpl-elections-2023.md
The new structure places information into non-strict directories; in contrast:
bits/content}: $> ls 2024
debconf24 dpl-bits interviews new-developers
bits/content}: $> ls 2024/debconf24/
debconf24-logo-contest-results.md
proxmox-platinum-debconf24.md
This new informal directory structure allows us to align all of our tags and
categories with ease, which is coming up shortly in this audit hence this email. :)
[1] https://bits.debian.org
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/bits/-/blob/master/housekeeping/tag_structure.md
[3] IRC: #debian-publicity on irc.debian.org (OFTC)
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Be well,
Donald Norwood
Debian Press and Publicity
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