Perhaps we should start preparing two versions here on plt-dev. One version for emails & the blog post, one for the short places.
And, reading Carl's second blurb, I'm convinced that it belongs in the longer announcement. For the shorter one, I think that futures go on, but I'm not sure what else. Robby On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 2, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> This discussion is an instance of something I have an opinion on. >> >> I think we should be more verbose in our release notes about what is >> new and different. I feel like the desire to only mention really >> visible changes is motivated by a focus on our educational users. We >> already have a separate plt-edu announcement, so I don't see the >> need to be tight lipped generally. > > Consider also that some places have a limit on the length of these > announcements. Freshmeat is especially a PITA -- allowing around 600 > characters overall, and I always need to spit some blood to get to > something so small. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
