How are the openSUSE news?

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Hi

What do you think how are the openSUSE news?

Should be something changed, should it be how it is or do you have any other aspects/questions.

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I vote good, always room for improvement.
Maybe they need to be more interesting, from a marketing point of view (sell me the news :slight_smile: )

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this would be nice to introduce, I will ask for that in the next meeting.

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Basically, it’s really nice, but as you already mentioned on planetsuse, we need more content.

But something puzzles me: what’s the audience ?
If the only people who read weekly news are the same who read PlanetSUSE and follow a few mailing-lists, then it probably makes no sense to write the weekly news. Personally, as I’m subscribed to most lists and reading PlanetSUSE all the time, I usually don’t read the weekly news as they “only” rehash things I already saw elsewhere (which is the whole point of the weekly news ;)).

The news are only really useful if they are read by an audience that typically does not read PlanetSUSE and the mailing-lists.
Or the forums, for that matter. If there was more forum related content in the weekly news (hint, hint to the forum contributors ;)).

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this is right, because they are our news sources. We are doing that just in our free time and our time is limmited and not enough to write the whole news by ourself.

For example translating the whole news takes me nearly 3 1/2 hours.

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Features are not known. I´d like to see tasks-features and how is their progress. Like Fedora has.
BrainStorming Prague - openSUSE…

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AFAIK that’s is not depending by Weekly News.

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yea, it may be, but where could we see the progress of features?

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I’m one of those that doesn’t get the time to read Planet Suse & mailing lists for me it’s a place to get a quick summary of what’s going on. The weekly news also makes a good starting point if I wish to read in depth on a subject.

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This may be a little off topic,but that spam protection for the Comments in Opensuse News. May I suggest a distorted letter number display? That stuff like, “What is f-ive + s-even?” It took me 3 tries to get it!

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Hi. You can the the progress in http://features.opensuse.org. The other Places ideas.o.o and other are imported to features.o.o in future. So OpenFATE is the best place…

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Thats an good idea. I think you can submit this to: beineri@opensuse.org. AFAIK he knows the news.o.o better than me …

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As noted before: there’s always room for improvement. I’ll throw a few ideas at you, discuss them, take them up, or let them drop as you like:

  1. A newsflash-category: just short comments {160char? ;)} with (outside-)links to news around Linux, kernel, and apps. Not necessarily bound to openSUSE, a view beyond the soup-dish would be welcome.
  2. A version-update-category: short comments on the type of program and changes in the new version, links to further info and 1-click-installs
  3. A event-category: what events are newly announced? outside-links to further Info an the upcoming events. Comments on done events, outside-links to further comments/info

Make it a point/portal for the users weekly news-fix without the need to subscribe to around 20 or so feeds and another 15 or more mailing lists.

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We need more Input. Please feel free to post about how are our openSUSE News.

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How about including reference to an openSUSE wiki of the “week” report?

ie each week one refers to a wiki, … and it does not have to be a great wiki … instead it can be a bad wiki that desperately needs updating, and this is a way to advertise a request for help … or just a wiki that is useful … etc …

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There is one vote for bad? :mad: Bill Gates, go away and stop messing up our polls! :P:P:P

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I think overall pretty good. I would like to see more original content for the weekly news other than highlights from planetSUSE etc. Perhaps the people of openSUSE should be saved for the weekly news? Maybe an update from the openSUSE ambassadors? Anyway keep up the good work.

Mike

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It’s good already, though improvements/innovations could always be made. The way it is, it’s a rather clean news bulletin. Like many door to door new bulletins, it could do with some user experiences/reviews. Other idea: App of the Week, about standard usage of apps; a sticky could be posted, collecting info from users about the app.

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^^^ what do you mean with that?

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Another thought wrt openSUSE news. …

In addition to my previous suggestion of considering to include a “wiki” of the week (asking for volunteers to update, or to just ask users to look at a new wiki update to check for errors), it may also be useful to have a section that mentions things like packages being depreciated/replaced by others …

I know, this is more “Linux” general, than openSUSE specific, … but it has been a minor peeve of mine for a while … minor in that each time it happened when I learned of an app was depreciated a long time after the depreciation, I felt like an old fossel. :slight_smile:

… a recent case in point is the mplayerplug-in not working with Apple Trailers (Unable to play apple site trailers - openSUSE Forums although there is a work around with a custom compile using the SVN versions) it turns out that mplayerplug-in is being depreciated, to be replaced by grecko-plugin. Hence there are no assurances the Packman packager will want to update mplayerplug-in. … Would there be a benefit to have a Linux/openSUSE common news section, where input from the Packagers (in this case the Packman mplayerplug-in and gecko-plugin packagers) could be fed into the weekly openSUSE news ?? .

Hence we could try to get the Novell/SuSE-GmbH and also the 3rd party packagers for openSUSE to use the weekly news as a means of passing on salient information relating to the packages they package. Currently for those who do not monitor the packman mailing list, I think there is no such feedback to the rest of the community.