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

[Wyatt]

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 16:07:06 UTC, Meta wrote:
>
> The links, especially the Github ones, tend to be quite long, 
> and I didn't want to take up too much space with them, 
> especially with the "one link per line" format.
>
To clarify, I'm not against descriptive text serving as a link; 
my concern was only regarding the link formatting causing breaks 
in sentence flow.  I just used markdown-style notation for 
convenience in my example.

>> Suggest bulleted list, maybe below the important NG threads.  
>> But what qualifies as a smaller announcement?
>
> That's what I'm trying to figure out. I may just use my own 
> judgement to figure out what's important, although I am open to 
> suggestions.
>
Point releases for libs/tools/applications might be good.  Meant 
to mention that before, but forgot.

> That's true, it'll always be in the changelog. Already, though, 
> Dicebot has suggested that the -vgc pull should be featured 
> more prominently. I agree, and I am somewhat worried about 
> making a "wrong" choice for what to feature.
>
A rule of thumb might be to point out things that could 
potentially change someone's workflow, either by adding new tools 
or by changing/tightening the semantics of a feature.

> Also, what is GMN?
>
Gentoo Weekl^w Monthly Newsletter.

> Thanks for the links. The word "newsletter" is probably a 
> misnomer, as that makes this sound more professional than it 
> is. This is really just an attempt to aggregate the important 
> news together in one place, the same as TWiR.
>
Huh, I've never thought of it that way.  Silly languages and 
their vagueness.  But that is pretty much what all the 
(successful) distro newsletters are like, so we agree in spirit! 
;)

Cheers,
Wyatt