News
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]"
- 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... ...
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