news archive page does not updated

[xuwei-k]

http://scala-lang.org/news/
https://github.com/scala/scala-lang/tree/master/news/_posts

[adriaanm]

+1

[SethTisue]

only the items with a post-type of news are appearing; the missing ones all have post-type of announcement

I don't understand the intent behind the distinction. perhaps @heathermiller can clarify?

[SethTisue]

in news/index.md, is there any reason not to change {% if p.post-type == 'news' %} to allow the announcement case also?

[heathermiller]

Announcements are noisy. If there are M news posts and K announcements, typically M << K. So a news page would be essentially a change log peppered with a news announcement every 6 months. Avoiding drowning news posts in a sea of minor version bump announcements was the intention.

Instead it'd likely be more intelligent to have an index of announcements and an index of blog + news articles. That makes more sense than the current set up, I think.

[SethTisue]

I understand better now... I'll think on this.

FYI @dickwall (iirc you were puzzled by this as well)

[heathermiller]

Why don't we just put items with post-type news and blog on this index and rename it "archive" rather than "news archive"? Then the list of items shown is a bit more sensible.

We can also change items with the announcement post-type to release-announcement and have an "Release Announcement Archive" as another index of pages.

[SethTisue]

I would like to do something about this, but I can't really do surgery on the site if I can't preview changes locally, so it's blocked by #361

[heathermiller]

I don't understand what the problem you're having is, this isn't descriptive enough. I use Jekyll versions 1-3 across computers to build locally without issue. What does "i can't preview locally" mean? What kind of errors are you getting that's preventing you from using Jekyll locally?

[SethTisue]

re: Jekyll, I've responded at #361

[SethTisue]

The changes you propose above SGTM.