Hi, There has been concern addressed about keeping up with Ubuntu development without following every mailing list, being on IRC 24 hours a day, and reading -changes lists. In an effort to make that easier I would like to start something similar to Debian's Developer News.
http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews The idea is that small items are collected, and then periodically sent to debian-devel-announce as one mail. In initial discussion about this two proposals for how this should operate were made. You can read the proposals at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News The proposals are given at the end of this mail for those who are reading mail offline. I encourage you to read the proposals, and then make comments on the wiki page, either giving your support to one proposal, or giving your opinion. At the end of a discussion period the comments will be evaluated, and if there is a clear winner that will be the process we will use. I propose the MOTU meeting in 7 days, on the 28th Nov, as the end of the discussion period. I am happy for this to be added to the meeting agenda for discussion if desired. Otherwise if there is no clear winner then I will declare the proposal I didn't write as the winner. If anyone objects to the idea of aggregating news items for developers then feel free to add your comments to the page as well. Thanks, James Proposal 1: collect items on the wiki page This proposal follows that of Debian's DeveloperNews. This wiki page would be the place to collect the items. They would then be sent on when there were a few outstanding, or some amount of time had passed since the last mail. Anyone would be encouraged to submit items by adding the text to the page, and anyone could send the mail when needed. The wiki page would naturally form an archive of old items for people to easily browse. Proposal 2: Use the ubuntu-news-team mailing list As there is already a news team interested in collecting news items and sending them out, information of interest to developers could also be handled by this group. To avoid adding an undue extra burden on this team, it would be appropriate for developers interesting in administering the developer news to also participate in the news team. (note that the news team has yet to be asked about this). The advantage of such a system would be that the UWN, Fridge, and developer news announcements would all be sourced from the same base of information. The disadvantage of such a system would be a need for greater editorial review of presented items, and active filtering so that editors could best direct things to the audiences most likely to be interested. If this proposal is selected, this wiki page contains only the set of procedures for such postings, and does not contain an archive of previous postings. [No-one has approached the news-team about this proposal as yet] -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
