$foobar update

[Jonathan Roberts]

Some further updates on $foobar and News. It's worth noting that
events have not fully unfolded yet, but with the meeting tomorrow
night I wanted to give people plenty of advance information so things
can go nice and smoothly :)

The only concern really put forward from any member of the News team
thus far is relating to work flow, but the same person who expressed
these concerns was equally quick to express their belief that broader
exposure, RSS etc are all good. WRT work flow, the concerns were being
able to edit in plain text still, using vi or what not, having a
weekly deadline to work towards for motivation, and the desire not to
split each article of FWN into a separate WP/$CMS entry.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-news-list/2009-July/msg00009.html

You can see my response to this message linked below. Suffice to say
that I largely sympathised with the concerns, and emphasised that the
goal of this project is to find ways to make life easier for News,
Marketing and anyone else who might be interested to get stuff done
and to gain a larger readership/more coherent presence across the
project.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-news-list/2009-July/msg00011.html

Since that particular thread, a broader one has started on the News
list in which the nature, processes and future of News are being
discussed, and while these issues mostly focus on particulars of the
News team, it might be interesting to note from the Marketing
perspective that there is something of a consensus (perhaps
overstating the case a little) that FWN is in itself a form of
marketing, The outcome of that thread will be interesting to watch,
and probably impact on the way they will be interested in
collaborating on $foobar.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-news-list/2009-July/msg00013.html

All that being said, there's not been any input from news on to the
wiki (despite my gentle prodding), though I'm pleased to see that more
design requirements and suggestions have rolled in from other areas of
the project.... Please, put feedback and requirements on to the wiki,
in any section, so Ian can make a decision soon on the platform we
want to pursue!! I don't think we should necessarily block on News, as
both Zikula and WP have a good plugin architecture that would probably
allow us to work the system to their needs later... although maybe
this is short sighted?

Racing against the battery now, hope this was useful, see you all tomorrow.

Jon