[drupal-docs] Re: [drupal-devel] drupal-devel

[Robert Castelo]

On 15 Jul 2005, at 00:16, Boris Mann wrote:
> This whole discussion is also out-of-scope for the development 
> list...let's take to Docs if you want to continue discussing.


Shouldn't this be on the Infrastructure mailing list? ;-)


> OK, then I want to see it done right:
> * anyone that wants a blog on Drupal.org applies for it (developer, 
> documentation, marketing, etc.), and has their role upgraded to one 
> that allows having their own blog


Some members do coding, documentation, etc. - so there should be a 
strict separation of posts rather than users (blogs).

We can set up a vocabulary with required terms 'code', 'themes', 
'documentation', 'marketing',....

This would allow us to create post listings based on these terms, so if 
you wanted to you could view all the recent documentation posts, 
without needing to wade through all the other posts.


> * apply a free-tagging vocabulary to blogs


Isn't this a case in which a small, pre-defined vocabulary would work 
better?

I love free-tagging, but I can imagine the vocabulary splintering into 
unnecessary subcategories.


> * a "real" blog allows for images. This also means giving all blog 
> contributors image upload access (ideally with terms set to "none" so 
> they don't show up in the galleries...).


Agreed, and it seems we'll soon have the disk space and bandwidth to 
handle this.

Also, one of the main advantages of setting up these blogs, is that we 
will be eating our own dogfood. There *will* be problems setting up 
multiple blogs and integrating them with functions such as image and 
file handling, but this will lead to faster development by the 
community to scratch those annoying itches.

> * one link in a Drupal blog will have huge weight in terms of search 
> ranking, so there is a lot of incentive to game the system


I think the community can police itself. Maybe we should add a 'report 
abuse' link at the bottom of posts to make this easier.


> Did I mention enabling stories, putting them in a moderation queue, 
> and having more article style content? Yes, I did, a couple of times, 
> since this allows anyone to contribute, will lead to higher quality 
> content, and allows for moderation before posting.


Gerhard made a good point that not many people are going to put the 
time and effort it takes to write a well written article in the hope 
that it *might* be approved for posting.