Dear kudra: Thanks for changing the title! Late night post. I've read the two "this and this" links before when I searched Perl Monks for "news." I'd passed those links over because one said "vroom MAY HAVE turned off" the newsbot and the other was no more informative in my opinion. I didn't consider either an authoritative answer as to why no news?
More to my point, if there's no automatic news gathering (ok fine), then why doesn't vroom (or whoever) open up the news area to manual posted news (by higher level monks only if that's a concern)? That last brief round of discussion resulted in no actions to "fix" the Perl News. I'm sure this site's maintainers have more important things to tend to, but can someone please give a straight (and authoritative) answer? | [reply] |
This might be nice (especially if the section is going to stick around anyway), but I don't think it's a pressing need: major news items tend to get posted in Meditations anyway.
On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to track minor news items... so after due reflection, aquacade++. Though we can always just go direct to http://use.perl.org, if we really want to.
And I think the answer to your original question is further down in one of the threads kudra linked--take a little harder look. :-) My guess is that the format changed when http://news.perl.org got morphed into http://use.perl.org, and reeducating perlnewsbot to parse it seemed unworthy of the effort.
Update: to clarify, I would favor collecting all news items (major and minor) in the relevant section: I mentioned the minor items because they currently have no place on this site at all, not merely no place of their own.
If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have given us the railroads.
--Michael Flanders
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Not that it matters, but I would go the other way: It would be nice to have major news items in their own space.
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