[discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 22:01:26 (CEST), Paul Brown va 
escriure:
> On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:30:51 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 19:18:37 (CEST), Paul Brown va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > > That is not correct, Akademy makes a huge use of the dot for sharing
> > > > info
> > > > to the wider community
> > > > 
> > > > You can see this by looking at the articles on https://dot.kde.org/
> > > 
> > > But that reasoning is a bit weird, no? I am reading "There are many
> > > Akademy
> > > articles on the dot because Akademy articles are posted on the dot". But
> > > surely the same could be said of another site, say akademy.kde.org, if
> > > we
> > > started posting Akademy articles there, right?
> > > 
> > > I don't see how that makes using the dot over any other site better.
> > > 
> > > > KDE needs somewhere for official news, having that just mixed in with
> > > > blog
> > > > posts would make them much harder to find and be drowned out in noise
> > > 
> > > I would argue that it is not noise. Blog posts  collected on the planet,
> > > by
> > > and large _are_ KDE news.
> > > 
> > > If anything the dot brings more noise to the planet than any other
> > > source,
> > > as multiple largely unrelated  topics are covered on the dot, while
> > > blogs
> > > of the different projects and developers tend to focus on narrow,
> > > specific
> > > topics.
> > > 
> > > In any case, if noise is what you want to avoid (and it is a valid point
> > > to
> > > bring up), it makes much more sense to publish Akademy news on the site
> > > that hosts all the other Akademy info, that is: on akademy.kde.org and
> > > interested parties can go there to get their news.
> > 
> > I disagree, I see akademy.kde.org as the page for people explicitly
> > interested in Akademy, but even people not really interested in Akademy
> > are
> > potentially interested in what happened in it,
> 
> As far as I know, there is no plan to stop posting news about Akademy or
> impede those people who are interested in Akademy news from reading them,
> albeit elsewhere.
> 
> > e.g. because they are
> > interested in the decision we took to rename Plasma to Quark.
> 
> What?!?

That was just an hypothetical example of something that may be decided in 
Akademy (and thus reported in the Akademy news) that people that are not 
interested in Akademy per se would like to know about.

Cheers,
  Albert