I think this is a great idea. I subscribe to the SVN commits to see what's happening, but since I'm not a developer it's not always easy to figure out exactly what's been happening. The news digest would fit my needs perfectly.
Steve. Thomas Gstädtner wrote: > Hi, > > in the "Twitter"-thread this week on the devel ML we had a discussion > about how we could make a serious and regular "news"-section for > E.org, not only external on twitter/facebook/etcpp. > I already did some suggestions, but now I'd like to make it more concrete: > As I see it, it would be best to have the news in a kind of digest > form, not a lot of single items (that is what the existing twitter > feed can be used for). > Many projects do it based on a regular date - be it weekly, monthly or > per quarter - I think this concept would be also great for E. > As the twitter feed contains many small things of all kind, I think > the news on E.org should be only more relevant stuff for the users > (not developers!) that do not want to read the mailinglists, > twitter-feeds, and similar on a regular basis. Of course this doesn't > mean developers should be completely left out - big stuff like bigger > API-changes could be also announced that way (but not every trivial > thing, that's what the SVN commit list is for). > > E.org currently has a news section, but it is not well maintained, or > let's say it is only used for big announcements (it only contains big > releases like new EFL/E snapshots, EWL releases, the SVN move and so > on). So I think this section should be renamed to "Announcements", > because this is what it is used for. Big Ass Announcements. > Additionally there should be the "News" section for stuff that matters > but isn't _that_ important. That's where I'd like to see what I said > above. > > I think Weekly News would fit for E, because users have regular > information about interesting things (and there are a lot of > interesting things in a week or two) and it is not too much overkill > like daily or per-item based news. If there should be a week with not > that much changes it could be temporarily bi-weekly. > As I said in the twitter thread: I'd be free to write this if you > think it's useful. But even better would be if it could be more > collaborative. So we could use the SVN, the Wiki (probably the best > way), or if you don't want it there my personal public git (with write > access for everyone interested in taking part) to collect all > interesting stuff over the week and post it at Sunday evening on E.org > and probably as digest on the E-Users ML. > > Here's how I imagine it: > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Enlightenment Weekly News 2009/20 > ================================= > > SVN News: > --------- > The drawer-module received initial support for composite plugins > (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40644) and a winlist plugin > (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40666). > > Sergey Semernin is working hard on E's file manager and it definitely > pays off: > E_fm2 now has full support for in-place renaming and custom per-directory > backgrounds (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40668). > There have been a lot more patches from him which are or are not yet in SVN. > > Community News: > --------------- > > Gustavo Barbieri is planning to rework the notification (libnotify) module and > would like to drop the shelf-gadget of the module. If this feature is > important > to you, feel free to take part in the discussion on both mailinglists > ("notification module: how do you use it?"). > > Massimiliano Calamelli started a Twitter-feed about E development. > If you're not following the SVN commits (or probably even if) this is a great > source for all sort of new stuff in or around E. > > Inofficial chances to meet E developers: > Raster will be on a trip through Europe between may 19th and june 9th. > For more information check the ML ("berlin/paris/berne... who's around?") - > and don't forget to bring your sticks! > Gustavo will be at Ubuntu Dev Summit in Barcelona (19-31 May). Don't miss your > chance to get your own SPANK SPANK shirt! > ________________________________________________________________ > > Please share your opinion, > > thomasg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables > unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine > for externally facing server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
