blogs.apache.org

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

Very recently the ASF setup a new service: http://blogs.apache.org

Every project gets a section in it[1].  We're currently using the  
somewhat limited Confluence blog support[2].  The confluence blog  
support doesn't have tags and doesn't show entries in the rss feed  
older than 30 or 60 days (something in that ballpark).

Should we switch over to blogs.apache.org?

-David


[1] ours is here: http://blogs.apache.org/openejb
[2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=OPENEJB

Re: blogs.apache.org

[David Blevins <da...@visi.com>]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Jonathan Gallimore wrote:

> The new service looks very nice.

Definitely better than the confluence stuff.

> I was a bit puzzled as to how we get posts up there, do you know if  
> we need
> to sign up for an account (I was looking for a registration link,  
> but didn't
> find one), and post directly on there, or does it somehow aggregate  
> our own
> blogs?

Just need to file a jira (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA)  
and request an account for blogs.apache.org.  Then I can give the  
perms for the OpenEJB blog specifically.

As far as posting to blogs.apache.org/openejb, seems like there's a  
"Save as Draft" option.  Not sure if it will work, but we might be  
able to use that to get lazy consensus.  Sort of a write the blog  
entry, post a link to the draft to the list, if no complaints/feedback  
in a day or two, publish it.

As far as getting your individual blog syndicated, there's this new  
service http://planet.apache.org/ .  To get your blog in there you  
just need to add your info to this file in svn: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/planet/committers.ini

> Also, do you know if there's any functionality to include links to the
> latest posts on blogs.apache.org from the news section on
> openejb.apache.org- so we could perhaps get the best of both worlds?

The news stuff on the front page just uses an rss Confluence macro, so  
we definitely can have the best of both worlds.

-David


>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Blevins  
> <da...@visi.com>wrote:
>
>> Very recently the ASF setup a new service: http://blogs.apache.org
>>
>> Every project gets a section in it[1].  We're currently using the  
>> somewhat
>> limited Confluence blog support[2].  The confluence blog support  
>> doesn't
>> have tags and doesn't show entries in the rss feed older than 30 or  
>> 60 days
>> (something in that ballpark).
>>
>> Should we switch over to blogs.apache.org?
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> [1] ours is here: http://blogs.apache.org/openejb
>> [2]
>> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=OPENEJB
>>

Re: blogs.apache.org

[Jonathan Gallimore <jo...@gmail.com>]

The new service looks very nice.

I was a bit puzzled as to how we get posts up there, do you know if we need
to sign up for an account (I was looking for a registration link, but didn't
find one), and post directly on there, or does it somehow aggregate our own
blogs?

Also, do you know if there's any functionality to include links to the
latest posts on blogs.apache.org from the news section on
openejb.apache.org- so we could perhaps get the best of both worlds?

Jon

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Blevins <da...@visi.com>wrote:

> Very recently the ASF setup a new service: http://blogs.apache.org
>
> Every project gets a section in it[1].  We're currently using the somewhat
> limited Confluence blog support[2].  The confluence blog support doesn't
> have tags and doesn't show entries in the rss feed older than 30 or 60 days
> (something in that ballpark).
>
> Should we switch over to blogs.apache.org?
>
> -David
>
>
> [1] ours is here: http://blogs.apache.org/openejb
> [2]
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=OPENEJB
>