Debian Bits blog tag audit of 2024, V1 r1
(From the publicity team)
Aka: Debian Publicity Team Audits and Standards (phase II)
Please reference the prior posts on this audit[1] topic, they will be
instrumental as you read along this journey.
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For the first stage of this audit we will align with the 5 Ws [2], [3] of
English writing: Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
Here we will use the 5 Ws as a guide, though tweaked a slight bit, for
specialized use; specifically using 'container' in the place of the sixth
'W', 'How' (in honor of the beautiful poetry of Rudyard Kipling [4]).
Following that, our new tag structure will become :
[Who1] Main Subject/Organization, [Who2] Second Organization | [What]
#announcement, # statement, #development | [When/Where] blank mainly but
#DebConf or #DefCon would fit here | [Why - toward what end?] #software,
#development, #diversity, #sponsor, etc... | [Container] #projects, #code
1. Debian drops Debian.
We drop the #debian tag on most Bits posts as it is redundant. Readers are
already reading about Debian on the official Debian blog from Debian. The
only exemption to this rule would be Debian mentioned in something that we
are not self-reporting on, such as outside interviews, news, or press
coverage; this helps later with highlighting the 'Debian in the News'
posts/tags on Bits and in our own humble coverage[5] of ourselves.
2. Introduce the new more specific tagging system (examples):
Google Summer of Code (gsoc)
From:
#gsoc, #announce
To:
#gsoc, #google, #announce, #development, #diversity, #software, #code,
#projects
Debian Developer Conferences (debconf, debconfYY)
From:
#debconf20, #debconf, #sponsors, #lenovo, #infomaniak, #google, #aws
To:
Debian, #sponsors, #sponsor-1, #sponsor-2, #sponsor-3, #sponsor-4,
#sponsor-5, #announce, #Debian Developer Conference, #developers,
#development, #software, #diversity, #project, #conference
Above at the very end the 'conference' tag looks to be a double entry;
however, 'Debian' is represented at several conferences and 'Debian' has
its very own conference. To 'unify' the separation every DebConf gets a
#debconf series of tags and the word 'conference', and every Debian
representation from Debian at a booth AT a conference gets a 'conference' tag.
3. Figure out how to really do this (we need a bigger boat):
With over 800+ articles to review this work has, at least to me, become a
lot more work than I thought it would be. I think focusing on a roadmap
archival structure as listed above in consideration of the alltags[6]
listing would make this effort available to many hands rather than just one
set of hands.
For example if I can do 5 per work week, that would be only 20 per month or
240 updates per year working against 800+ and growing articles. That would
take me alone (800 articles/240 edits) 3.3 years.
That bad(?) math perhaps indicates this in an easy easy super easy
community assisted project that would function better with a dedicated
roadmap that volunteers could work from/against rather than 1, 2, or 4
people working on this task.
I ask for and propose that a group of contributors and developers would
develop the structure with a second set of contributors and developers
committing the work into the repository. I am describing something that is
pretty much a mini-team, which is one of the things that Debian excels at.
So if you have time, love categories, love libraries, and love F/LOSS, have
I got an offer for you. :)
Working inside of and/or with the Debian Publicity Team[7] is one of the
easiest ways to contribute to Debian and one of the nicest ways to help the
project be heard. We speak many languages across many timezones and are
very welcoming.
No refunds, read the fine print. :)
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2024/09/msg00004.html
[2] https://comm.gatech.edu/resources/writers/5ws
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws
[4] https://allpoetry.com/I-Keep-Six-Honest-Serving-Men
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/PressCoverage
[6]
https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/bits/-/blob/master/housekeeping/alltags.txt
[7] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity
*Fine print: NO REFUNDS
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-Donald
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