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.