[drupal-docs] Drupal Drops Newsletter - May 23, 2005 - Draft

[Boris Mann]

On 20-May-05, at 8:55 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:

>
> On 19 May 2005, at 18:09, Robin Monks wrote:
>
>>> The best part, you help write it!  We get all our content from
>>> forum posts, changlelogs and monthly contributors.  This means
>>> that we are a completely community-powered newsletter.
>>>
>>
>> I thought there was going to be the story type, put into a
>> submission queue. Have you noticed this is the part I'm interested
>> in? This will be a way for people to submit focused, longer article
>> length content. Are the category terms set up yet? Need a
>> description of how to do these submissions.
>>
>> This is in Dries teritory.  It sounds good, but remember, it has to
>> go into one page/email newsletter.  So normal cateogries might not
>> do the job.  Dries, please fill in here.
>>
>
> Boris, are you suggesting that we drop the newsletter idea and enable
> stories with community moderation?  What stories would be 'news
> items' and how to they flow to the newsletter?  I'm not sure I fully
> understand the workflow you envision.  Please elaborate.

No. The newsletter stays as is -- a monthly (every 2 weeks, whatever)  
summary of stuff that's going on in the Drupal universe, aimed mainly  
at those that don't use RSS (or can't be bothered to check up with  
everything). Robin could hilight/select some of the stories in the  
newsletter.

> I was thinking of enabling the story module and have Robin post
> "newsletter stories".  The stories would be tied to a new
> 'Newsletter' taxonomy term.  It does not involve community moderation
> and post access would be restricted.

"Newsletter" would be one of the story terms, and Robin would post  
when he emails it out. Other terms would include "Best Practices",  
"Tutorials", "Case Studies", (maybe even move "News and Events" out  
of the forums) etc. Anyone could post, but it would go in the  
submission queue. The docs team would review and approve posts.

So...no community moderation (the doc team approves, just like  
approval of book pages currently). I wrote this suggestion up in more  
detail on the docs list previously.

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Boris Mann
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