What happened to the Wine Newsletters?
What happened to the wine weekly newsletters? the latest issue on the website is dated May 26, 2007. I am hoping this does not mean nothing interesting has happened since then, since I am certain something must have happened since then...
On Sunday 07 October 2007 22:15:48 King InuYasha wrote:
What happened to the wine weekly newsletters? the latest issue on the website is dated May 26, 2007. I am hoping this does not mean nothing interesting has happened since then, since I am certain something must have happened since then...
The same question was asked a week ago on this list. No one is maintaing the newsletter, feel free to do it. Alexander N. Sørnes
King InuYasha schrieb:
What happened to the wine weekly newsletters? the latest issue on the website is dated May 26, 2007. I am hoping this does not mean nothing interesting has happened since then, since I am certain something must have happened since then... ------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are just not enough human resources fot that... But the releasenews for each new wine version should cover most interesting things that had happened. The short way. Martin
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Martin Bosner wrote: [...]
There are just not enough human resources fot that... But the releasenews for each new wine version should cover most interesting things that had happened. The short way.
I guess this was mostly humorous, but still, I feel compelled to say that: The release news are no substitute for the Wine Weekly News. They are not even close. They are just one-line summaries of the top-5 changes in the release. Besides the other 5 top-10 items they miss, they don't mention any of the discussions happening on wine-devel, nor any of the talk about Wine in the news, or upcoming WineConfs, application database improvements, etc. The WWN was really nice. I fear that without it the wider community and outsiders mostly see the 5 lines release news and think that not much is happening (or think that we only work on obscure/useless stuff due to lack of context), or at least have pretty much no idea what is going on. WWN provided a very useful service to Wine by letting them get a glimpse of the life of the project. Unfortunately, not having the skills or the time required, I can only hope that some kind soul can fill that void soon. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ 1 + e ^ ( i * pi ) = 0
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm a Senior at UIUC and my major is History, so I write quite often. Let me know if you're interested. ---Alex Francois Gouget wrote:
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Martin Bosner wrote: [...]
There are just not enough human resources fot that... But the releasenews for each new wine version should cover most interesting things that had happened. The short way.
I guess this was mostly humorous, but still, I feel compelled to say that:
The release news are no substitute for the Wine Weekly News.
They are not even close. They are just one-line summaries of the top-5 changes in the release. Besides the other 5 top-10 items they miss, they don't mention any of the discussions happening on wine-devel, nor any of the talk about Wine in the news, or upcoming WineConfs, application database improvements, etc.
The WWN was really nice. I fear that without it the wider community and outsiders mostly see the 5 lines release news and think that not much is happening (or think that we only work on obscure/useless stuff due to lack of context), or at least have pretty much no idea what is going on. WWN provided a very useful service to Wine by letting them get a glimpse of the life of the project. Unfortunately, not having the skills or the time required, I can only hope that some kind soul can fill that void soon.
Hi Alex,
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm a Senior at UIUC and my major is History, so I write quite often. Let me know if you're interested.
Of course! In the case of WWN, no news isn't good news. By all means, give it a go. --Juan
Juan Lang wrote:
Hi Alex,
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm a Senior at UIUC and my major is History, so I write quite often. Let me know if you're interested.
Of course! In the case of WWN, no news isn't good news. By all means, give it a go. --Juan
Ok, I'll get working on this soon. I have midterms this week, and then I'll start looking at it. Would you guys prefer if I tried to cover all the major news since the last WWN (thus less specific detail on each) or just the recent stuff in more detail? ---Alex
Ok, I'll get working on this soon. I have midterms this week, and then I'll start looking at it. Would you guys prefer if I tried to cover all the major news since the last WWN (thus less specific detail on each) or just the recent stuff in more detail?
Personally, I think a writeup of wineconf (if you can, I know you weren't there) would be a great place to start it back up again. The biggest news there, I think, is that we're finally trying to go for a 1.0 release. --Juan
Juan Lang wrote:
Ok, I'll get working on this soon. I have midterms this week, and then I'll start looking at it. Would you guys prefer if I tried to cover all the major news since the last WWN (thus less specific detail on each) or just the recent stuff in more detail?
Personally, I think a writeup of wineconf (if you can, I know you weren't there) would be a great place to start it back up again. The biggest news there, I think, is that we're finally trying to go for a 1.0 release.
--Juan
I'll sure to cover Wineconf as best I can as well as the 1.0 release. Should I mention a release time at all for 1.0 or should I avoid that until we have a better idea of which bugs remain on the 1.0 milestone? I hope to start writing this weekend, so if there is something you would specifically like covered (iTunes 7, OpenGL Child windows, etc), please let me know either by e-mail or on this list and I'll do my best to incorporate it. ---Alex
On 10/10/07, Alex Waite <awaite2(a)uiuc.edu> wrote:
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm a Senior at UIUC and my major is History, so I write quite often. Let me know if you're interested.
I've been kind of quiet on the whole topic and not really advertised for someone else to take it over. I think a big part of that is I thought my schedule would eventually slow down and I could pick it back up again. Well, it's been a year and I don't see that happening any time soon. For the curious, I moved 600 miles away to Montana, new house, new job, etc. We're busy building a new playground ( http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/moonlightbasin-lonepeak2.jpg ). I can definitely lend assistance to someone taking this over. Here's what I could help with: - Initial guidance about setting up WWN issues and how to tackle writing them. - Some scripts for stats. - Pointing out which threads to cover. That can kind of be a challenge for a while when getting into this. It's hard to pick out the important stuff and which stuff should be ignored. - Co-authoring for a bit. The process is actually set up pretty well to allow for multiple collaborators. Oh, and I'm going to be on vacation for 3 weeks starting next Monday, so I'm mostly useless until November. Alex - I think you have the perfect set of skills for this. When I started I hadn't read any of the mailing lists, so you've got a leg up on that. -Brian
I've been kind of quiet on the whole topic and not really advertised for someone else to take it over. I think a big part of that is I thought my schedule would eventually slow down and I could pick it back up again. Well, it's been a year and I don't see that happening any time soon. For the curious, I moved 600 miles away to Montana, new house, new job, etc. We're busy building a new playground ( http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/moonlightbasin-lonepeak2.jpg ).
Umm you work at Moonlight Basin? I just wanted to let you know you are hosting WineConf there next year. Or else. =) John
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