Hi Rob, It is indeed a great idea. However, the two editors given credit at the bottom of the url you posted are Sun employee's who get paid to do the job so they don't really count as 'volunteers'.
The Jakarta project has plenty of great minds and thus great ideas. What we are lacking is great volunteers. Everyone is too busy bitching about what an asshole I am. So, my suggestion is that if you would like to see this done, you start working on it yourself...not worrying about how bad an editor you are...and just post *something*. That will encourage others to help you edit and create it (it is hard to complain about something without helping out). Discussing how things should be done won't get you anywhere. This is the same tactic that I used when I created Anakia [1] which is now used to create most of the Jakarta websites as well as www.apache.org and httpd.apache.org. It isn't the most perfect tool [2], but it does the job well, people adopted it quickly and the bitching about Styleweb (the previous tool) stopped. thanks! -jon [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html [2] http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/dvsl/ -- Standard rules apply: Ask any questions, and you get the job. ;-) on 12/27/01 12:32 PM, "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies if this has been brought up before, but I was wondering if the > idea of a jakarta newsletter been discussed? As an interested user of > NetBeans I find their weekly newsletter > (http://www.netbeans.org/newsletter/2001-09-03.html) extremely interesting > and helpful as I don't have the time to monitor all of the separate mailing > lists. > > The same is certainly true at jakarta, and while I've watched and > occasionally taken part in discussions on ant-dev for over a year, it is > difficult to find time to monitor all threads in the one list let alone keep > abreast of whats going on in commons, avalon, struts, tomcat etc. I'm not > sure of the best place to send such a letter - some news@jakarta springs to > mind - but a copy on the website would also be good and the first issue or > two should probably go to all lists to grab some attention + volunteers. It > would require volunteer editors (rotating after some fixed period) and > presumably an editors address/list to suggest interesting threads to, since > I doubt anybody has the time to monitor all of the lists themselves. > Alternatively maybe a nominated (and rotating) editor per project could > suggest the most interesting threads each week tobe compiled into a single > letter. > > I realise that I'm probably making a rod for my own back suggesting this and > as such am happy to help in the setting up of the letter but by profession > I'm a software engineer not a journalist so would want to get others > interested from an early stage... > > Any thoughts? > > Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
