[ocaml-infra] blog.ocaml.org

[Leo White]

I think that both those examples would be better posted on someone's blog 
and fed through the Planet. And I think the same could probably be said of 
anything that might go on blog.ocaml.org.

If something is important then it should have its own page, but if it is 
just something interesting that you would like to share with people then it 
is probably better to put it on a personal blog.

Just my two cents.

Regards,

Leo

P.S. I also think that those kind of "see, people do use our language" 
pages seem a bit desparate on an official website. You don't see a "Python 
success stories" page on www.python.org.



On Jan 8 2013, Ashish Agarwal wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>What would be the intended content for the blog?
>
>
>Mainly I wanted it because there are items that make sense to go on the
>ocaml.org website, but which become slowly less relevant over time. It's
>awkward to keep these as normal html files. A few examples:
>
>* Serious Contender page [1]. It's nice, but where to put it? It would be
>perfect as a blog post (backdated in this case) because it was relevant at
>the time the page was made, and we don't want to claim this as a recent
>news item (since the information in it is old).
>
>[1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/34
>
>
>* Success Stories [2] might make more sense as blog posts. Some of the
>current ones are kind of outdated. Making each of these a blog post would
>automatically make them less relevant over time (and presumably we'll have
>new success stories being added over the years). The current page could be
>a filter on blog posts tagged "Success Story".
>
>[2] http://ocaml.org/success.html
>
>
>* Semi-official announcements, e.g.
>- a new release of OCaml (but this would overlap with Inria's blog, so
>should be coordinated with them)
>- "Real World OCaml in print". This would be a result of wide spread
>importance to the community.
>
>I think it should be limited in use. Opening it up more widely seems
>unnecessary. You can easily make your own blog, and subscribe it to the
>Planet.
>
>-Ashish
>