Re: pear weekly news

On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 12:07, Graeme Merrall wrote: > Quoting Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de>: > > > On Fri Jul 05, 2002 at 01:4642PM +0800, Alan Knowles wrote: > > > I put together a draft for a weekly news letter here > > > > > > http://www.akbkhome.com/pear_weekly_news/5%20Jun%202000/ > > > > > > I could just keep putting it up on my site, but if anyone has any > > ideas > > > - let me know.. > > > > You can put this up on pear.php.net so that more people will see this, > > but please be consistent with the other scripts that are running > > there. If you have more questions, just drop a note here or on > > pear-webmaster@php.net. > > I actually floated this idea past Avi who looks after the PHP Weekly News on > zend.com and he was pretty enthusiastic about it. I suggest he run it past Stig > first incase Stig and any problems with making it mroe public that it already > in in light of PEAR going 'live'. Either Avi didn't get the nod or Stig > wasn't > to keen on the idea because not much seemed to come of it. Hm, when was this? I wouldn't reject this idea :-) Anyway, I think the weekly news, or any kind of news thingy, should be on the pear.php.net front page, as suggested in a comment on Alan's site. We don't have a publishing system there, but that can't be such a hard thing to do. There's a "notes" table in the database that's meant for all kinds of news or notes, could be used for this (the advantage being that you can associate notes with any pear user, package or release. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb