Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: website ground rules

[Øystein O Johansen]

> Should there be a short News section at the top listing any important
> changes/updates in the past month? I'm thinking no more than a
> sentence or two  reporting on the progress. Nice to have a little
> something there to encourage people to return to the site every so
> often.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I think everyone with write access to the CVS should be able to put up
some kind of news into the web page, using some kind of web form. I
think it's important that the users check back often. Maybe even the
news should have categories like slashdot or www.gnomedesktop.org

Our categories could be:
Documentation
Engine
GUI
Ports
Features
Bugs

(Just my first thoughts)

Maybe this is a bit to much? I was just thinking as I typed.

> I have no previous experience of open source projects, but it seems
> to me that any timescale set would be fairly artificial and probably
> not  affect the progress that much? Though I am curious if there's
> any ballpark figure for the release of version 1: six months, two
> years?

The time for the release of GNU Backgammon 1.0 will be 12 months.
This number, 12 months, has been constant for the last 4 years. ;-)

-Øystein



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