On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 00:50:56 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 00:25:08 UTC, Mike wrote:
I think the email will work well, but it might also be nice to
have a public document that contributors could edit directly.
It might save you some cutting/pasting/word-smithing time.
Maybe then all you would need to do is perform a final edit.
Wiki or Github, mabye? (or maybe not)
I entertained the idea of hosting it on GitHub. This would make
"moderation" of submissions in the form of pull requests fairly
simple. The drawback of this, however, is that anyone can see
each issue long before it is finished, diminishing the "impact"
of the actual release. Maybe this isn't a huge problem, though.
Having to do the same thing every week can get old, too.
Again, I think some way for the general D public to contribute
directly would help with this, but I know that has the
potential to become a management nightmare in itself.
With a few other volunteers, we could take turns round-robin
style. It depends on who else wants to volunteer their time, I
guess. The more I think about having a community-contributed
list on Github, the more I like it, but that seems to conflict
with why I'm doing this in the first place, i.e., nobody else
wants to do it.
Nice draft, looks good. I'll agree with others that you should
crowdsource as much as possible. Even if very few people ever
contribute, it helps that the option is there and I imagine some
will use it. I think people being able to access the in-progress
newsletter before release is a feature not a bug, for those who
must know what's going on as it happens. Most will probably just
access it upon release. I'm not a fan of using github for
everything though, maybe the existing wiki would be a more
lightweight way to collaborate?
I just ran across LLVM Weekly, a newsletter for the LLVM project
started earlier this year, might be worth looking at. They
recently mentioned Warp, and the fact that clang still beats it,
;) in their latest newsletter:
http://blog.llvm.org/2014/03/llvm-weekly-13-mar-31st-2014.html
