You could probably set up a Jekyll blog using GitHub Pages pretty easily.

-Kevin

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Kenny Leung via swift-evolution 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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