[Webteam] News on first page

[Brad Fuller]

goran at krampe.se wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
>   
>> I like it on top (of course) too.
>>     
>
> I published it like that now.
>  
>   
>> I like that there are links to other news, but I would remove anything 
>> that is not "news". Why not provide links directly to Squeak Weekly?
>>
>> --
>> I placed a link to Planet Squeak 2 using Feed2JS on the wwwtest site. I 
>> looked for other RSS feeds, but I didn't find any and the Planet Squeak 
>> RSS feed seems to be not working.
>>
>> Anyway, check it out.
>>     
>
> Mmmmm. Nifty I agree, but I am not sure this is the way to go. I think
> it clutters the frontpage way too much. Having feeds like this in a
> boxlet or in a separate page is fine.
>   
Yeah.. we've always differed on this. I think the "Welcome" section 
should be removed. go figur.... I know I'm in the minority :-(
> But regarding the frontpage I rather think we should point to Planet
> Squeak etc and instead only include (manually) the Really Important News
> Items, like Squeak releases, VM releases, elections and or similar "main
> events".
If selected news items are what people want, we should have the news 
team pick the important news - that's what they're good at -- and it's 
their job.