(DO NOT POST TO HACKERNEWS/REDDIT/ETC.) RFC for a Community Newsletter for D: What's New in D Draft #1

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On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 11:34:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Awesome stuff there!
>
> I do want to propose one fundamental change though - change 
> grouping / ordering to be based on potential importance to the 
> casual end user and not by information origin. For example, I 
> am pretty sure that merged -vgc thing is more important from 
> marketing point of view than half of actual announcements. Of 
> course importance judgement will be biased but it is still 
> better than unsorted list.

I mostly agree at this point, although in this case, I think 
Dconf news and Facebook open-sourcing Warp should still take 
precedence.

> Don't forget that primary audience for such publication is 
> someone who does not code in D now and/or actively follow the 
> development but wants to be aware of "big things" to possibly 
> reconsider. Plain pull request description list will likely to 
> look quite cryptic.

That's true. I'm thinking that maybe the pull requests should be 
limited to just a couple of the most important ones, with a 
paragraph or so explanation each. Then at the end I can provide 
links to each of the full PR lists on Github. Or maybe the Github 
links aren't necessary at all, as it is already linked in the 
introduction paragraph at the top of the page.