[wx-dev] wxBlog?

[Mart Raudsepp]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:08 +0200, Robert Roebling wrote:
>   Hi all,

Hey

> I wonder if we should have blog or something similar.

Funny that we had a similar discussion on IRC just yesterday between me,
Kevin Ollivier and Bryan Petty. Though it was more in the nature of
"isn't it weird speaking to an unknown audience while blogging
anything?" and "There would probably be quite some readers if there were
a wx development related category".

> The news section on the homepage is more for formal
> annoucements and hardly used, the mailing lists can
> not be read by everyone and are, by nature, not
> organized. A place, where people could *easily* post
> things about current development might be useful to
> fill the gap. I have little idea about the different
> blog systems, but I'd like to see something where one
> could easily write a comment and post a screenshot.

That's a good idea as a whole. Been thinking about that as well, so
thanks for showing the initiative bringing it up.

Now from the technical point of view, there are various ways of setting
things up.
There are simple blog engines like the popular wordpress one.
There are the planets, which simply aggregate certain feeds together
into one page and a planet RSS feed.
And then there are multi-user systems like b2evolution (as a solution
for anyone to install), livejournal, blogger.com, etc that allow many
users to use the same set-up, but have them all separated

For me personally the ideal solution would be a planet that would just
fetch the wxWidgets category feed that I already have in my blog[1],
together with other developers. Once it is more visible, I could blog
more about wx upstream development in that category.

It probably all depends on how other interested developers want to do
this, and what resources we can use.

> CVS integration of wxAUI, addition of the rich text
> control, the SoC projects for RTL, socket code and
> the installer, the new picker widgets, maybe work on
> the dataviewctrl, the contract for a DirectFB version
> are all things which others just shortly looking at
> the project might find interesting and it might help
> them judge the ongoing development, direction and
> future of the project (which is possibly more important
> than the current state). There are also many port
> specific changes, other might find interesting. Indeed,
> even I would like to "see" more of wxMac or wxMSW
> changes and how they look on screen or how they improve
> existing code.


1. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio


Thanks,
Mart