The negatives to which we draw attention, and the positives that are overlooked

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Graham Perrin () The negatives to which we draw attention, and the positives that are overlooked
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For Plone kittens to play with, and fight over, the following balls of wool are thrown into the arena:

 * attention is drawn to masses of discussion that is sometimes (naturally) negative:

  — problems, test failures, puzzles et cetera

 * when attention (or Google relevancy ranking or whatever) falls below a level to which we're accustomed, alarm bells ring

  — <http://dev.plone.org/plone.org/ticket/1004>, for example

 * we draw not enough attention to a mass of well-written content that's publicised by people who are highly committed to Plone

  — <http://planet.plone.org/>
 
 * for Plone, documentation is always a form of support

 * documentation should appear under the Support tab at plone.org

  — if within the current plone.org infrastructure this can be no more than a vision, then let it be a vision (not necessarily a shared vision)

 * a search (using Google or whatever) for something Plone-related should highlight:

  — primarily, the content that's most current and positive

  — secondarily, the content that's conversational and ephemeral

  — that is, for example, a re-ranking (not losing sight) of forum/list material

  — lastly, but not secretively, bones of contention. Woof.

 * Planet Plone should gain a tab at plone.org home

 * selected blogs, or blogs/posts that are tagged in a particular way, should be not only represented; for the purposes of indexing, ranking etc. some blog content should (with permission) be _cached_ within the plone.org domain

  — this need not be difficult

  — add-on products exist to cache content in the required way.

Happy knitting, kittens.

Argue, pleasantly and concisely.

Meow.
Graham Perrin () Re: The negatives to which we draw attention, and the positives that are overlooked
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(This post was updated on )
Three comparisons:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aapple.com+%2BPython+%2Bprocessor>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aapple.com+%2BWindows+%2BVista>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aapple.com+%22Microsoft+Outlook%22>

Results of (1) are to be expected. Python is amongst the stuff that Apple installs on your Mac.

Many of the results of (2) and (3) — maybe half a million items of content — really do _not_ belong in the apple.com domain. (For these products: why are people not discussing with Microsoft, with VMWare, with Parallels, and so on? It doesn't exactly bother me that discussions are mis-placed, and if I make <http://www.apple.com/uk/support> my starting point then results are generally fine, but things _could_ be _better_.)

I'm neither moaning nor analysing, simply observing. The purpose is: to encourage a step _back_ from over-focus on minutiae, to enjoy a macro view of

 * what might and might not be contained/represented by the plone.org domain.
Graham Perrin () Re: The negatives to which we draw attention, and the positives that are overlooked
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With respect and consideration for the ongoing/forthcoming changes to information architecture etc.:

* I'm locking this topic for a while.

(No-one asked me to do so, but I think it polite :)