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[Leo White]

>An OCaml release or a new book being published are important but don't make
>sense as a whole page. I suppose each of these items could be on some other
>blog and thus show up on the Planet. 

That is what I was thinking. Although I suppose it might also work to give 
major announcements their own pages hidden away somewhere (perhaps in a 
subdirectory of wherever the Planet stuff ends up) and then push them 
through the Planet system.

> I guess I'm looking for a way to
>filter out a subset of all Planet items that are worth displaying more
>prominently on the frontpage, or other pages within ocaml.org.
>(Incidentally, the current frontpage design doesn't support this.)

Some method of filtering out and highlighting important news is probably 
something that we need to figure out anyway. Ideally they should appear 
more prominately and age more slowly than regular blog posts.

Regards,

Leo

>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<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 current ones are kind of outdated.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
>>>
>>>
>>
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