On 05-01-2006 17:00:15 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > So - as GWN monkey - I'm offering my services as aggregator for project > updates. Maybe someone from the doc project wants to help to get this > information put on the website so that it's visible?
The following crossed my mind: what about a Developers release of the GWN? I see you guys scouring the planet, MLs and whatever more, but not all information there is user-friendly, or just a 'good idea' to tell the users about. I'd really like to see an aggregation of stuff from all kinds of sources (perhaps even including CVS/SVN commit messages) put into a monthly (or bi-weekly?) message sent to -dev for instance. It should just have some headliners for each project team, such that those who want be a bit aware of what happens in the whole of gentoo can read it, and take an active role when interested in some more information. I'm thinking of quite dull news, so absolutely not meant to be a publication like GWN, but just thingis like some commits on the portage sources that say to fix/implement X, a discussion on project ML Y working on Z. Also for instance that Flameeyes has been working on something with "--as-needed"; just what it is, and why, from planet. Perhaps even a short note that after +-150 commits the tree has been upgraded to XOrg-7_rc1 or something... that can be useful information, even though it does look like spam. This kind of information is all of the type background noise, hence it dull, but can be very important for those that are open to it. I would just be interested in such a thing, because I'd like to read some few lines per month on projects, but not whole MLs and every dev's Blog. Of course it's just shifting the problem of not wanting to read everything to someone else... but IMHO it does improve communication for those open to read the "Gentoo Developer Notes" (or something like that). Just a thought. No idea whether you really meant to do something like this. Would like you to do it though ;) -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo/Alt -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
