Commons Blog
July 18th, 2006 by HenI’ve been saying “I need to start a blog on Jakarta Commons things” for ages, so this weekend I finally got around to doing so. It’s at http://www.featheredblogs.org/blogs/page/commoners and hopefully I can lure some of other Commons coders into doing some authoring.
I’ve got three categories so far. The first is pretty simple, “Releases”, in which I pretty much just cut and paste the announcement from the project. It shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone though as I’ve got a bookmark list in the navbar displaying the projects who are currently working on release candidates.
The second category is “In the Sandbox”, the idea here is to interview people bringing new things into the sandbox. Things tend to hide away in the sandbox, so I’ve a few canned questions for when the project’s website is up and available.
The third category is “Tips”. It’s as simple as it sounds. Happy, useful little tips on Jakarta Commons. I used to write such things for CNet/Techrepublic, so it’ll be fun to write them again (and not have a painful deadline).
One last thing to mention is the Triage link. It’s not cron’d yet, but the purpose is to pull together the issues in the Commons project that don’t have a fix version yet and display them in a single report. By remembering the last report, a changes email can be sent to commons-dev too.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:05 am
Cool! Good idea. A couple of questions / suggestions:
- Get this listed on PlanetApache.org
- Let people on general@jakarta.a.o know (I think you may already have done this)
- The “Releases” category seems like a duplicate of http://www.apachenews.org/, so maybe there’s no need for it (but it doesn’t do any harm).
- The 2nd and 3rd categories, and Triage link are all brilliant I think.