llvm dev - May 2016 - Interested in writing for the LLVM blog?

On 18 May 2016, at 07:45, Alex Denisov via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I do write some Clang/LLVM related articles on my blog[1][2], and I will be
happy to write for LLVM’s blog.
> 
> However, I can’t omit bike-shedding :)
> 
> Forgive me my directness, but current blog doesn’t look like something
close to 2016.
> 
> The blog already has lots of great articles. But it’s so hard to grasp
valuable information when you have to read non-highlighted C++ code.
Sorry for the bikeshedding, but the readability of the blog is also hampered
considerably by re-posting all of the LLVM Weekly entries there.  It’s already
easy to subscribe to them at http://llvmweekly.org (which has its own RSS feed
and is a great resource), but having copies of them make up 90% of the posts on
blog.llvm.org makes it very difficult to find the remaining 10%.

Please can we stop cross-posting LLVM Weekly to the LLVM blog instead promote
links to llvmweekly.org (and, ideally, to the most recent 4-5 articles) to the
front page of llvm.org and to the blogs.llvm.org?

David

On 18 May 2016 at 08:59, David Chisnall via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Sorry for the bikeshedding, but the readability of the blog is also
hampered considerably by re-posting all of the LLVM Weekly entries there.  It’s
already easy to subscribe to them at http://llvmweekly.org (which has its own
RSS feed and is a great resource), but having copies of them make up 90% of the
posts on blog.llvm.org makes it very difficult to find the remaining 10%.
>
> Please can we stop cross-posting LLVM Weekly to the LLVM blog instead
promote links to llvmweekly.org (and, ideally, to the most recent 4-5 articles)
to the front page of llvm.org and to the blogs.llvm.org?
I'd be happy with that. Blogger's view counts indicate there is an
audience for these posts, but I agree with the current blog setup they
can drown out other posts

Alex

> On May 18, 2016, at 12:59 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at
cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 18 May 2016, at 07:45, Alex Denisov via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> I do write some Clang/LLVM related articles on my blog[1][2], and I
will be happy to write for LLVM’s blog.
>> 
>> However, I can’t omit bike-shedding :)
>> 
>> Forgive me my directness, but current blog doesn’t look like something
close to 2016.
>> 
>> The blog already has lots of great articles. But it’s so hard to grasp
valuable information when you have to read non-highlighted C++ code.
> 
> Sorry for the bikeshedding, but the readability of the blog is also
hampered considerably by re-posting all of the LLVM Weekly entries there.  It’s
already easy to subscribe to them at http://llvmweekly.org (which has its own
RSS feed and is a great resource), but having copies of them make up 90% of the
posts on blog.llvm.org makes it very difficult to find the remaining 10%.
> 
> Please can we stop cross-posting LLVM Weekly to the LLVM blog instead
promote links to llvmweekly.org (and, ideally, to the most recent 4-5 articles)
to the front page of llvm.org and to the blogs.llvm.org?
> 
This is a reasonable suggestion. LLVM Weekly is an amazing resource which is why
we wanted it on the blog. However, it may be better to link directly to it from
the website as you suggest.

-Tanya

On 23 May 2016 at 17:30, Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> On May 18, 2016, at 12:59 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at
cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Sorry for the bikeshedding, but the readability of the blog is also
hampered considerably by re-posting all of the LLVM Weekly entries there.  It’s
already easy to subscribe to them at http://llvmweekly.org (which has its own
RSS feed and is a great resource), but having copies of them make up 90% of the
posts on blog.llvm.org makes it very difficult to find the remaining 10%.
>>
>> Please can we stop cross-posting LLVM Weekly to the LLVM blog instead
promote links to llvmweekly.org (and, ideally, to the most recent 4-5 articles)
to the front page of llvm.org and to the blogs.llvm.org?
>>
>
> This is a reasonable suggestion. LLVM Weekly is an amazing resource which
is why we wanted it on the blog. However, it may be better to link directly to
it from the website as you suggest.
I fully agree, and now that this effort to increase the the flow of
content to the LLVM blog is paying off, I think now is the time to
retire the LLVM Weekly cross-posts so as not to crowd-out all this new
content. As such, I've documented issue #130
(http://blog.llvm.org/2016/06/llvm-weekly-130-jun-27th-2016.html) as
the last one that will be cross-posted in this way.

Best,

Alex