[Web Comm] feedback/questions about OSGeo site news creation

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> I am preparing to go through the process of adding a news item "to
> verify that you have the right access to everything, and the process 
> is adequately documented". I feel disoriented and puzzled already. 
> 
> I see conversations in the list archives about how there's a cvs
> repository for the www project which has the news in it, and a svn
> repository for the news project, which doesn't have the news in it.
> I can't find the sense in this. Auke/Andrew, what would be involved in: 
> 
> a/ killing off the news project (moving the developer/project
>    spotlights, figuring out how they integrate w/ the rest of the site

Jo,

I have put this on the agenda for the next webcom meeting (deprecating
the news project) as an act of simplification.

> b/ moving the www project from cvs to svn 

Apparently there are historical technical issues with doing this.
While it is irritating to folks like Jason who can't easily access
cvs through firewalls, my understanding is that we were going to let
it be for now.

> I can't see from here, where to find the cvs repository for www.

Jo, I see you weren't listed as a project developer for the www project.
I have taken the liberty of adding you.  Now if you visit:

   https://www.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectHome

you should reach the normal project page for the www project.  From there
the CVS link on the left side will indicate the CVS connect info.

> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/News_Queue otherwise is helpful. It's 
> not clear to me how the stuff that gets added to news_archive.html 
> subsequently winds up on index.html. Trial and error may enlighten
> me, but how much error are you guys prepared to put up with? ;)

Actually, there is no index.html as far as I know.  The main page
seems to be automatically composed from various parts.  The main body
is ProjectHome.html.html, but we are apparently no longer putting news
there.  Instead to get the news on the "main" page we announce it using
the Announce mechanism for the www project.  We separately hand add
it to the news_archive.html file.

Please fixup the wiki as you work through these items.

PS. I'm in IRC if you have more questions.

Best regards,
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