On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hello, Thanks for the idea. When I was writing the FAm beat, I do really felt that little automation can make the process better. First of all my suggestion is not to make the process 100% automated. But we can use a script to list things then the content can be edited as required. The script is not to make the process full automated. It barely reduce the copy, paste time. Being frank, full manual editing is quite cumbersome to repeat weekly. That is the reason behind the proposal. Putting the content together is not the hard part but the writing the beat. As Sankarshan noted, if it is possible to semi-automate FAm welcome etc., then we can start there. As noted may be some beats cannot be adopted this method, then we can use the old method but at-least we can use the new method for some beats. Open for discussions. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | IRC: bckurera _______________________________________________ news mailing list news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/news
