Comment 3 for bug 129943

> I notice that all the existing news items point at help.launchpad.net. If we use an RSS feed from the news blog, would that mean that all news items
> needed to be posts on the blog? If so, is that considered a problem?

Matt to confirm but I don't think it is a problem. We can always make a hidden category which feeds this.

This seems more difficult than simply updating a text file in bzr and pushing it out at release time but we'd like to have the Launchpad Front Page news have the ability to change mid-cycle. We could also use this feature as a service announcement (e.g. "Launchpad will be down Sunday the 9th from 3am UTC to 7am UTC for Database Maintenance. " A method like the above would also help keep us in sync.

I agree the material should be stored inside Launchpad so in the event the blog goes down, we have a backup .