You might want to take a look at http://notes.implicit.ly/ 
<http://notes.implicit.ly/>.  I think it is based on something called Herald 
and Tumblr.  

Something equivalent for Swift library version announcements would be great.


> On 2015-12-24, at 1:27:28, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’ll take a crack at this. How about a GitHub repo with a new .md file every 
> week?
> 
> -Kenny
> 
> 
>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 9:29 PM, Kevin Ballard via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> During the development of Rust prior to v1.0, one of the things that really 
>> helped with keeping up with changes (both in the language and in the stdlib) 
>> was Corey Richardson's weekly newsletter/blog titled This Week In Rust. 
>> Since 1.0, that was actually turned into its own website at 
>> https://this-week-in-rust.org and appears to still be going strong (although 
>> I assume someone else has taken over responsibility at this point).
>> 
>> What Corey did with This Week In Rust was he went through all the pull 
>> requests that were merged in the past week, found the "important" ones, and 
>> compiled a list of one-line summaries that linked to each PR in question. He 
>> made sure to call out any breaking changes (this was pre-1.0 so there were 
>> breaking changes almost every week) as well as anything that seemed like it 
>> would be of interest to people looking for a weekly summary. He also listed 
>> RFCs (Rust's equivalent for our swift-evolution proposals) as well as any 
>> interesting news from the community (such as new projects or libraries). 
>> This weekly newsletter was posted on his blog and also posted on the Rust 
>> mailing list. I'm really not sure where he got all the time to do this (I 
>> believe he was studying at University at the time), and I don't know how 
>> much time it actually took, but it was widely regarded as being extremely 
>> helpful.
>> 
>> I'd really love to see someone with enough time on their hands start up 
>> something similar for Swift. This would include interesting or important 
>> changes to the language/stdlib as well as news about proposals (e.g. 
>> newly-submitted ones, ones up for review in the coming week, the 
>> accepted/rejected resolution of them, and finally news about when 
>> implementations get merged in). Ideally, Apple would actually pay someone to 
>> do this, but I suspect it's unlikely that there's anyone involved with Swift 
>> at Apple that has the time for something like this. And of course I don't 
>> have time for this myself (that's why I want the newsletter, so I can make 
>> sure I don't miss anything important!).
>> 
>> -Kevin Ballard
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