[jbosstools-dev] Question values of news in Red Hat Central page

[Alexey Kazakov]

On 08/26/2016 12:12 AM, Jean-Francois Maury wrote:
>
> I just noticed news info is not that up to date (June 2016)
>

Fred, could you please take a look? Jeff, file a jira ;)

Thanks.


> Jeff
>
>
> Le 26 août 2016 01:28, "Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse at redhat.com 
> <mailto:manderse at redhat.com>> a écrit :
>
>     On 25 Aug 2016, at 14:36, Mickael Istria wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>         As I'm reading the PDD, I've seen multiple occurence where Red
>         Hat Central is meant to show news inside the Desktop IDE. 
>
>     Since PDD is not public, might be useful to give context here:
>
>     This line is mentioned 3-4 times "with an initial “Red Hat
>     Central” page containing the latest and greatest Red Hat developer
>     news" which I do not see as anything but Red Hat Central as it is
>     today is shown to show news and getting started content.
>
>         I question the value of for several reasons:
>         * As I'm opening a code editor, I most likely want to code,
>         and don't want to be disturbed by news. It's not the right
>         time for me to read them
>         * Space is lost where we could use it to make simpler UI/UX
>         and give more assistance to users
>         * Typically, I expect news by mail or social media and that's
>         all and enough, and maybe even already too much. When I want
>         to read news, I go through the one I get via this channel and
>         I don't feel the need for more.
>         * Showing news in tools is pretty unusual. Most apps (web
>         browsers, mail/IM clients, image manipulation software...)
>         don't do it and it doesn't prevent them to be successful.
>         Do we have metrics of how often are the news link currently
>         clicked in JBoss Tools/JBDS ? 
>
>     last three years: ~500.000 views, about 35000 click-throughs.
>
>     But actually it seem like something broke in our data gathering
>     since sometime last year -
>     or we somehow broke it :/
>
>     But not sure what the "news" problem is since for a while now it
>     just shows a single line.
>
>     Btw. Eclipse Neon does this now too by default via the RSS feed
>     feature.
>
>     So is it the single line in Central you object to or that you
>     think the PDD is asking for more lines to be used ? (which I don't
>     think it is asking for actually)
>
>     /max
>     http://about.me/maxandersen
>
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