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| This is a page that will explain how developers can notify other developers of small things, such as upcoming transitions, new tools, changes in practice, where the item doesn't warrant a mail to ubuntu-devel-announce on its own. The items will be collected and sent on to the announce list every so often. This is inspired by Debian's DeveloperNews service that does just this. |
= Developer News = |
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| The items will come from various fora, notably direct submission, and being picked up from mailing lists and IRC. Anyone is free to submit an item, and everyone is encouraged to pass along things from other channels that they think would be appropriate. |
== Concept == |
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| The aim would be to aid people in keeping up with Ubuntu development when they do not follow every source of information slavishly. The wiki page would also serve as an archive so that if someone takes a break from development they can use this page as a starting point when trying to catch up with the changes. |
There are occasions when something would be of interest to a large portion of the development community, but is not worth a post to ubuntu-devel-announce@. For these cases you are invited to mail the Ubuntu news team with the item. These will then be collected and sent out to ubuntu-devel-announce@ in batches when there are enough to warrant it. |
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| There are competing proposals for how this process should work, so until that is decided this page will document the proposals and provide a place for discussion of how this will work. |
If the item is of wider interest to the Ubuntu community then the news team will take it and may use it in something like the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter. |
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| The way to proceed will be decided by looking at the comments on this page at the next MOTU meeting, on the 28th Nov 2008. |
== Items of interest == |
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| == Proposal 1: collect items on the wiki page == | * Upcoming or completed transitions, major new versions or new packages in the archive. * Success at things like triaging all bugs for a particular set of packages, or fixing all build failures on an architecture. * Availability of a new tool in ubuntu-dev-tools that may save people some time. * Summaries of mailing list discussions. * Events in Debian that may be of interest. |
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| This proposal follows that of Debian's [[http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews|DeveloperNews]]. | == Submitting an item == |
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| This wiki page would be the place to collect the items. They would then be sent on when there were a few outstanding, or some amount of time had passed since the last mail. |
* Write a draft of the item. Typically it will be 1-3 paragraphs with links for more information. It doesn't have to be perfect. * Send the item to ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com starting the subject with "[Developer]". The list is moderated for non-subscribers. The list is low traffic, and subscribing would allow you to help with the next section. * Maybe work with the editors to provide some more information or clarify some things. * If the item is time sensitive then you can state this, but in that case it may be best to send it yourself. |
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| Anyone would be encouraged to submit items by adding the text to the page, and anyone could send the mail when needed. |
== Aggregating items == |
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| The wiki page would naturally form an archive of old items for people to easily browse. | * Take the items that have been received since the last mail went out and pull them in to one mail using the template below. * Send out the mail to ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com * Add the items to the top of the archive at the bottom of this page. |
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| == Proposal 2: Use the ubuntu-news-team mailing list == | More people are needed to help with this task. Subscribe to the ubuntu-news-team list and keep an eye on articles. When there are 4 or 5 outstanding then do the above. |
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| As we already have a news team interested in collecting news items and sending them out we could re-use their list and simply send out two mails, splitting based on interest. |
If there are not enough submissions to do at least one a month then we either need to encourage more submissions or do more newsworthy things. |
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| This would mean that the news team could pick up things of wider interest without someone passing them on, or the news team monitoring another source of information. |
== Template == {{{ Subject: Ubuntu Developer News Issue <x> |
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| It would also make it easy to know where to send things, rather than having to decide on the potential audience first. It also does not fragment things. |
Welcome to Ubuntu Developer News issue number <x>. For past items or to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News. In this issue we have |
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| It does however require a different sort of monitoring, as we need interested developers to subscribe to that list and to note the items of interest. It also means it is harder to share the workload of sending the mails, as finding the list of outstanding items is more work. |
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| It is also an extra step update the wiki page to keep an archive, but perhaps that is not needed as the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list has an archive already. |
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Developer News
Concept
There are occasions when something would be of interest to a large portion of the development community, but is not worth a post to ubuntu-devel-announce@. For these cases you are invited to mail the Ubuntu news team with the item. These will then be collected and sent out to ubuntu-devel-announce@ in batches when there are enough to warrant it.
If the item is of wider interest to the Ubuntu community then the news team will take it and may use it in something like the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter.
Items of interest
- Upcoming or completed transitions, major new versions or new packages in the archive.
- Success at things like triaging all bugs for a particular set of packages, or fixing all build failures on an architecture.
- Availability of a new tool in ubuntu-dev-tools that may save people some time.
- Summaries of mailing list discussions.
- Events in Debian that may be of interest.
Submitting an item
- Write a draft of the item. Typically it will be 1-3 paragraphs with links for more information. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Send the item to ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com starting the subject with "[Developer]". The list is moderated for non-subscribers. The list is low traffic, and subscribing would allow you to help with the next section.
- Maybe work with the editors to provide some more information or clarify some things.
- If the item is time sensitive then you can state this, but in that case it may be best to send it yourself.
Aggregating items
- Take the items that have been received since the last mail went out and pull them in to one mail using the template below.
Send out the mail to ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
- Add the items to the top of the archive at the bottom of this page.
More people are needed to help with this task. Subscribe to the ubuntu-news-team list and keep an eye on articles. When there are 4 or 5 outstanding then do the above.
If there are not enough submissions to do at least one a month then we either need to encourage more submissions or do more newsworthy things.
Template
Subject: Ubuntu Developer News Issue <x> Welcome to Ubuntu Developer News issue number <x>. For past items or to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News. In this issue we have * Title * Title ... Title ----- Item... Links... Title ----- Item... Links... ...
Archive
Issue <x>
UbuntuDevelopment/News (last edited 2011-11-21 11:02:24 by dholbach)