Great Idea ! But it doesn't need to be weekly because, it's a free project, there is no engagement to produce something, no company behind.
Every 15days is still ok to me... Even if I can't really help on development, I could help for that :) On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:05 PM, andres <andresbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009 02:49:58 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Sun, 17 May 2009 16:54:18 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner < > tho...@gstaedtner.net> > > said: > > > > this is odd... no one has disagreed. very strange... (note - complete > > thumbs up from me!). i dont see it needs to be exactly weekly- but > > "regularly" maybe every few days (1-10 days or so) as long as there is > > regular news flow. i'm all for it. news is nicely stashed in svn for > > revision history too :) > > A commit digest like this http://commit-digest.org/issues/2009-02-22/would be > nice. Its a combination of: > 1. A big paragrpah detailing what's new with links to relevant project > pages > 2. A couple of blog posts from developers related to changes made in that > week > 3. Software generated statics from the svn server > 4. A list of bug fixes generated from the bug tracker > > The only thing I would change from that is the big paragraph at the begging > with something more lighter to the eyes (not looking like brick) and more > humanely written. > > The E.org version would be more lighter than this since there are no blog > posts to include or a huge amount of projects to keep track off -which > causes > the kde guy in charge of this to be behind schedule more often than not- > > I think 3 and 4 are pretty easy to do since software for them is most > likely > written already. 2 will take care of itself once developers start blogging > and it can be ommited if they dont. > > The real issue is 1. I think everyone should pitch in to make it easy for > the > guy in charge by marking the important changes. A good idea would be adding > a > specific word to their commit comment like "[newfeature]" and > "[improvement]" > in order to easily search the SVN list archive for important changes. > > IF we automate much of the process and pitch in by tagging commits this > will > be pretty easy to pull off, specially if we take turns to put it > togheter -the kde digest is done by one guy-. Once we get this going we can > add a section for it inside the "brochure" news page. > > That is all. > dresb > > > > > > 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). 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