On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'd say futures and the first part of the PLAI blurb. Jay > > 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 >> > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
