As you can see the timetable has slipped a bit! However, there doesn't seem to be a lot to go in this issue (just an entry for lucene + whatever I write to summarise general@) and I was wondering whether it was worth bothering with. I realise this is to be expected with the Christmas / New Year but there has been a general decline in content volume over the months and I was wondering whether there was something that should be done to address this. A number of thoughts have been mentioned by various people and I'd be interested to hear opinions:
Reduce the frequency - every 2 months has been suggested before. Format revamp - no idea how but ideas welcome - perhaps new blood is required? Widen the scope - ant and Avalon have grown up to be (at least partially) outside the jakarta scope, should we include xml.apache.org? and it's children? maybe just a simple *.apache.org? (with some appropriate rename) Maybe its fine as it is? Thanks, Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jakarta General List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'James Strachan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Henri Yandell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Conor MacNeill'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Stefan Bodewig'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Otis Gospodnetic'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'David Sean Taylor'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Martin Poeschl'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: Newsletter - Request for content > The end of the month is approaching again and I'm sure that, like me, a > lot of you are focused on celebrating the new year. Once all that is > over I'd like to post the December issue of the newsletter so if people > can send any reports to me that would be great. Everyone is welcome to > send summaries of any jakarta issues, those CC'd are so since they > posted last time and are asked for a repeat effort or to try and prod > others on the respective lists into taking over. > > In terms of timescale I'd like to pull the drafts together next weekend > and post as soon as additions stop trickling in. If the timescale > doesn't suit but you'd like to contribute then give me an idea of you'll > have something ready and we can discuss how long we can wait. > > In the meantime, thanks everyone and Happy New Year! > > Rob > > P.S. Big thanks to Otis for beating the content request! As usual! > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
