On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Buddhike Kurera <bckurera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The whole FAm beat can be made available with the use of a script. ( a > script to dig the pipemail and extract things required and arrange > them, pretty systematic way). If we discuss with other beat writers we > can figure out the possibility for their bets as well. AFAIK, the > insight > helps the publishing part instead the conventional wiki editing > process. Therefor we can put a step forward and make the > beat writing process smoother. If you are going along this path it is a slippery slope (and, I've thought about this a lot of times earlier as well). The idea of FWN, or, at least what I thought of it when I used to write the Ambassadors beat, was to piece together the activities of the Ambassadors group in a way that a reader can have a fairly clear idea of the activities for the week even if (s)he wasn't part of the group or, was part of any team inside of Fedora. This was the basic thought which allowed me to experiment with separating the sections or, even trying to cover the FAmSCo mailing list. A tool or, a script is good when you have specific data sources to obtain detail from viz. the new Ambassadors listing (or, new packages waiting for karma) etc. But reading the threads and thereafter providing a neutral point of view while maintaining a conversationally easy tone is a writer's job. Instead of a wiki a CMS could probably be a better publishing medium. But, in context of the FWN, tools/scripts being written to pre-process content for editors is probably not a good idea. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ news mailing list news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/news
