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

[Jean-Francois Maury]

I just noticed news info is not that up to date (June 2016)

Jeff

Le 26 août 2016 01:28, "Max Rydahl Andersen" <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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