[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: Add end-of-the-year news article

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 11:06:46 CET 2012


On date Saturday 2012-12-29 21:33:46 +0100, Alexander Strasser encoded:
> Lou wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012, at 04:45 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > 
> > > I wonder if it is a good idea to advertise such changes. They made
> > > sense when we didn't have "formal" releases, now "occasional" users
> > > are mostly interested in changes included in new releases (that's the
> > > point of releases after all), so features should be advertised mostly
> > > in concurrence with new release events, or we will quickly end up with
> > > a huge news section (too much news -> no news).
> > 
> > Slightly OT: Maybe it's about time to archive some of the old news; then
> > a long news section will not be as much of a concern. Can we still call
> > something from 2007 "news"?
> 
>   Yeah, probably. I do not think it is a problem ATM. With more frequent
> news posts the situation would change though.

Feel free to do as you prefer, my only concern is that we end up with
with features/development mentioned at widely different level of
detail.

I agree that cleaning up the old entries may also help (removing
entries older than three years should be safe).
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