Re: [hibernate-dev] Release announcements
On 28 May 2015 at 10:05, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:47:29PM -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> At the moment we write release announcements using in.relation.to and then
> announce in other mediums by posting that link. We all agree (more or
> less) that the wiki editor and rendering on there leaves much to be desired.
+100, the editor and rendering sucks.
> Brett had mentioned a long time ago about GitHub and its release
> capabilities and tonight I went back and looked at them again. I created a
> more descriptive release announcement in GitHub then its default of just
> using the tag message for this 5.0.0.CR1 release just to see how it worked
> out. Here are the 2 links for comparison:
>
> * http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM500CR1Release
> * https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/5.0.0.CR1
>
> There are a few things to notice here. First, I think we can all agree
> that the second looks considerably better. Also, there is a lot to be said
> for these being closely available from the source repo.
I like this approach in general and I agree there is a certain merit in having
the announcements in the source repo, BUT :-)
We are very close now with the migration of in.relation.to to awestruct. In fact I
was hoping we could do the migration within a couple of weeks. Using the awestruct
based blog, we get markdown/ascidoc for writing the blog entries and also a blog
which matches it its style the current hibernate.org website. It also means we can
continue our practice of announcing on the blog. The release announcements make up
a considerable part of the blog content, I fear moving them to GitHub will make our blog
to appear stagnant.
+1
Not least, it's an extremely lengthy process to change the habits of
your user population to go look elsewhere,
I think that any move to a different URL - no matter how shiny the new
place - would be damaging.
Of course if we could post a link and some metadata on github releases
automatically as well, that would be nice.
Granted that with the style of the current blog platform it might not
have such a big population of readers, but we hope the new blog to be
better at that. At very least I think we need to keep the new feeds
alive, they are not only fetched directly by readers but also
aggregated by other platforms such as the very hibernate.org
My vote is to push this blog migration through - now!
Looking forward to it! TBH I don't even remember how the drafts looked like..
-- Sanne
--Hardy
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