On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:09 +0530, sankarshan 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. Yeah, I think automated generation of a newsletter is probably not going to work terribly well. When I wrote the QA beat I did a lot of manual weeding of info from various sources and writing it into a summary that flowed, I'm not sure we could realistically automate that yet. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ news mailing list news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/news
