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

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 00:50:56 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 00:25:08 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> I think the email will work well, but it might also be nice to 
>> have a public document that contributors could edit directly.  
>> It might save you some cutting/pasting/word-smithing time.  
>> Maybe then all you would need to do is perform a final edit.  
>> Wiki or Github, mabye? (or maybe not)
>
> I entertained the idea of hosting it on GitHub. This would make 
> "moderation" of submissions in the form of pull requests fairly 
> simple. The drawback of this, however, is that anyone can see 
> each issue long before it is finished, diminishing the "impact" 
> of the actual release. Maybe this isn't a huge problem, though.
>
>> Having to do the same thing every week can get old, too.  
>> Again, I think some way for the general D public to contribute 
>> directly would help with this, but I know that has the 
>> potential to become a management nightmare in itself.
>
> With a few other volunteers, we could take turns round-robin 
> style. It depends on who else wants to volunteer their time, I 
> guess. The more I think about having a community-contributed 
> list on Github, the more I like it, but that seems to conflict 
> with why I'm doing this in the first place, i.e., nobody else 
> wants to do it.

Nice draft, looks good. I'll agree with others that you should 
crowdsource as much as possible.  Even if very few people ever 
contribute, it helps that the option is there and I imagine some 
will use it.  I think people being able to access the in-progress 
newsletter before release is a feature not a bug, for those who 
must know what's going on as it happens.  Most will probably just 
access it upon release.  I'm not a fan of using github for 
everything though, maybe the existing wiki would be a more 
lightweight way to collaborate?

I just ran across LLVM Weekly, a newsletter for the LLVM project 
started earlier this year, might be worth looking at.  They 
recently mentioned Warp, and the fact that clang still beats it, 
;) in their latest newsletter:

http://blog.llvm.org/2014/03/llvm-weekly-13-mar-31st-2014.html