On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
I've been doing a status rollup for a while. The first few went to this mailing list but then Pieter convinced me to post it to the blog <wp.osafoundation.org> and since then I've been inconsistent about copying it to this list.
I think it's worthwhile and worth posting to the list
Doing this rollup has been a significant amount of work: though I don't do it every week (don't expect one this week), it can be nearly half a day's work of finding information, writing it or rewriting it, and formatting, each time. The hardest work is actually trying to summarize masses of information. I know what the services team did this week, in my head -- but how do I explain that succinctly to somebody not part of the group or perhaps even not involved day-to-day in OSAF? (e.g. what does it *mean* to a reader if somebody fixed bug 4028 and worked on 4031 and 4685?)
Some other open source projects have a similar thing, which usually goes under the name of "This week in XXXX". I think that as we grow in our use of the mailing lists, you will be able to reference threads via the mail archives, which might reduce the need for summarization and context setting.
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