On 11/01/2016 15:56, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Every week I look at the newsletter, and in the "Interesting discussion"
section I find pointers to the uselist discussions.
I follow the uselist pretty closely, but have never found an acceptable
way to follow the forum discussions, so I rarely read anything on there
(except if an entry on the uselist contains a pointer to a particular
discussion).
Does the fact that the weekly newsletter always references interesting
discussions on uselist but not on the forums indicate:
(a) all the interesting discussion happens there, and I am right to
(almost) ignore the forums
(btw - :-)
(b) it is assumed that everyone follows the forums anyway, so there is
no need to mention their discussions in the newsletter.
(c) whoever draws up this part of the newsletter is, like me, a uselist
follower rather than a forum user.
Or of course,
(d) something else entirely.
Hi Alex,
I'm the person who (usually) puts the newsletter together! I do
sometimes include forum topics. I usually prepare the newsletter first
thing on a Monday morning. I use Gmane to look through the recent
messages in the use list [1], and I use the "Active topics" search on
the forums to look through the list of topics that have had recent
messages [2].
I usually look for several criteria when I'm choosing a discussion to
include:
* There should have been more than two people involved
* There should be more than about 3-4 messages in the conversation
* The conversation should have started since the last newsletter
* The topic should be of reasonably general interest
I feel like one of the reasons that more mailing list things make it
onto the newsletter is because the majority of forum topics seem to
follow the "basic LiveCode question, straightforward answer, end"
format, where as mailing list discussions usually seem to be more
open-ended and involve more people.
Also, if you notice any discussions about LiveCode or LiveCode
development in other places (Reddit, Hacker News, ...), please send a
message to <opensou...@livecode.com> or open an issue on the TWiL GitHub
repository so that it can be incorporated into the next issue.
Peter
[1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user
[2] http://forums.livecode.com/search.php?search_id=active_topics
--
Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com>
LiveCode Open Source Team
LiveCode on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/livecode
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