On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ross Gardler<rgard...@apache.org> wrote:
Right. I keep forgetting blog posts. It's possible to create newsletters from
them too (something like add a tag to include it in the newsletter).
Now if only there were someone lurking on the comdev list looking for a way
to contribute to the ASF, some kind of RSS to newsletter thing would be
great (a manual process would do to start with), I'd mentor that.
Hey, that's me!
Welcome David.
I've written a bunch of utilities like the one you describe. It's
pretty easy to implement a Roller scheduled task that fires
periodically, reads the most recent X entries in a tag, forms an email
and sends it out. Are those really the complete requirements.
Pretty much, yes. I think it would be better to be teaser content rather
than the complete content (there are RSS feeds for that). The idea is to
provide a cross foundation summary of activities without requiring
people to sift through all the project specific stuff.
So, for example, a blog about a new release is applicable, a blog about
a new feature is (probably) not.
If this gets adopted by the various communities then we can think about
doing something more grand.
What blogs would be included in the newsletter? You could create and
designate one blog to be the Labs blog or look for the Labs tag across
all blogs.
I'm thinking that projects should be encouraged to release their news
items through their own blog. Let me run the idea past press@ and see
what they think. Assuming press@ are OK with it I'll post a mail to the
appropriate lists and see if there is sufficient buy-in (i.e. we would
get enough content to make it worth the effort).
Watch this space.
Ross
Thanks,
- Dave
Sent from my mobile device.
On 23 Jul 2010, at 08:36, Bertrand Delacretaz<bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Ross Gardler<rgard...@apache.org> wrote:
...If you want a suggestion, how about a quarterly "newsletter" to be published
on the labs site and possibly mailed out to members@ and p...@...
Or blog post...labs can easily get a blog under
http://blogs.apache.org/ if needed.
-Bertrand
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