On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 2:01 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I remember a service, either on debian-devel or debian-devel-announce > where every few months, in the Bits from ... service/mail there used > to be news of new packages which have come in the Debian archive. > Think it was either bi-weekly or monthly service.
Were you thinking of "Debian Package of the Day"? It used to be aggregated on Planet Debian but not d-a/d-d-a. https://debaday.debian.net/ Also, see Laura's mail. > While I do not know how feasible it might be, would it be possible if > the service restarts, to have that same news also come on the landing > page. Sounds good to me. > I believe (although might be mistaken) for most NEW packages and > packagers it is hard to get users I expect for most packages, the motivation for the maintainers is that they themselves get to use them, rather than achieving a high popcon value. > While it probably might be a bit overboard to share all the new > packages, a curated list from the bi-weekly/monthly announcement > would encourage more users to try new packages. I wonder if this might be a task for the blends, to highlight a package of the month for their particular part of Debian. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
