Blog for rpmfusion.org

[Hans de Goede]

Chris Nolan wrote:
> Following this discussion [1] I have put together a Wordpress blog for 
> rpmfusion.org [2].
> 
> You can log in with your FAS username and password: it uses a simple 
> plugin to securely authenticate users against FAS and maps users to a 
> Wordpress "role" based on which approved memberships they have in FAS. 
> The mapping is currently set as sysadmin=administrator cvsextras=editor 
> cla_done=subscriber so package maintainers automatically get editor 
> rights and sysadmins automatically get admin rights.
> 
> If we're all agreed to at least give this a try (nothing ventured 
> nothing gained etc) then I'll need a subdomain pointing to the server 
> (say, news.rpmfusion.org or blog.rpmfusion.org?) and a link putting in 
> the header of the main site. We also need to get it submitted to planet 
> fedora but I'm not sure that I have sufficient approved memberships in 
> Fedora FAS to do this.
> 
> Please let me know your feedback. I don't want to expend a massive 
> amount of time on this if people aren't going to use it, but I really 
> think it could be an excellent tool for communicating with our users so 
> I would encourage people to post there if they have some 
> rpmfusion-related news.
> 
> [1] 
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-November/002244.html 
> 
> [2] http://rpmfusion.cenolan.com/
> 
> Best
> Chris
> 

Chris,

Thanks for the initiative! But I don't know if this is the way forward, a few 
of us already have a blog (Me, Xavier, Thorsten, Dominik (iirc)), I think a 
blog aggregrator would be better.

Regards,

Hans