[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Colomban Wendling]

Hi Frank!

Le 02/01/2011 15:11, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> I was thinking about an idea I'm not sure whether somebody would be
> interesting in.
> 
> As the Geany family is growing it might become more difficult to keep
> track on current developments inside the project as well as the close
> environment like new or updated plugins, important updates on GTK or
> some other used library in case you don't read every mail on the mailing
> list or hanging around all time inside IRC.
> 
> As I know from a couple of other projects some kind of a project
> newsletter has been set up by a couple of people to help to keep on
> track with latest updates. So I'd like to suggest setting up something
> like this also for Geany and its plugins etc..
> 
> In difference to the newsletters around Debian or PostgresSQL I was
> thinking about a monthly one maintained by a small team of maybe three
> people monitoring the mailing list, IRC as well as they are open for
> input of users and (plugin) developers. Based on this they could
> compile a newsletter and send it out to either geany-user mailing list
> or maybe some newly created one.
> 
> I could imagine of topics inside the 'newsletter' (unsorted list):
> * Geany Core
> 	* Reviews inside press, blogs, wikis etc.
> 	* Major updates/bugfixes/improvements on svn trunk
> 	* New releases and updates
> 	* HowTos for working with Geany
> * Plugins 
> 	* New plugins available
> 	* Major updates/improvements/bugfixes on plugins
> * General 
> 	* Important updates of used libraries
> 	* News out of community (of importance for Geany)
> 
> So question are:
> Who would like to see such a thing?
> Who would be able to help compiling such a newsletter?
> Any other ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank

I think such a newsletter is a good idea, and would help many people
(even those who actually follow the ML) to have an overview of the
recent changes, life of Geany. For example, I follow the ML, but don't
read each and every thread, so I probably misses some
interesting/important stuff I would be interested about.

Something I would add would be "future plans" when something big is
planned. This may even encourage some interested people to contribute :)

This said, I don't propose myself for the job, sorry... but great idea IMHO!

Regards,
Colomban