Hello everyone, In a recent meeting with many of the developers of deal.II we came up with the idea that it would be a nice feature to create an automated weekly newsletter about the current development of the library. Since this development mostly happens on Github, but for many users getting hundreds of Github notifications is not helpful such a newsletter could summarize the significant advances without cluttering everyone's inbox too much. Note that this would be an automated newsletter to make sure it is not dependent on somebody "having the time" to write one, and thus there is no distinction in important vs. less important topics. It is simply a way to keep an overview over the development and to give some credit to all the contributors who constantly offer to spend some of their time to improve deal.II further.
I already created such a newsletter for the deal.II based geodynamic modelling software ASPECT (http://aspect.dealii.org/), and therefore volunteered to take over this task for deal.II as well. In case you are interested in the format of such a newsletter you can find the latest ASPECT newsletter here: http://lists.geodynamics.org/pipermail/aspect-devel/2017-August/001955.html The first newsletter for deal.II will be out later today, and will likely be somewhat longer than average, because it includes the activity during the developer meeting, but on average we expect the newsletter to cover around 20-30 pull requests/issues per week with one line per PR/issue. Hopefully this newsletter will prove useful to some of you. I am open to suggestions and feedback about the format, content or frequency of the newsletter. Just let me know by answering to this thread. Best regards, Rene -- Rene Gassmoeller http://www.math.colostate.edu/~gassmoel/ -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
