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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail•com>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
	git <git@vger•kernel.org>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com>,
	Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail•com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Dongcan Jiang <dongcan.jiang@gmail•com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff•net>, Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail•com>,
	Bharat Suvarna <bharat.bs84@icloud•com>, Kevin D <me@ikke•info>,
	"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge•com>,
	Stephen Robin <stephen.robin@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 1
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:49:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq619sb9ne.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEcj5uV0adYn_F6D1mmueR5F8N459dgP1TTWmPiEH9NFeDqFeQ@mail.gmail.com> (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen's message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:50:53 +0100")

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail•com> writes:

> Good point. There hasn't been a decision on frequency. Weekly is a
> good rhythm for publications seeking readership, but that's a lot of
> work. My vote is we should first aim for a monthly consistent release.
> I'll try working this into the draft, and Christian may change as he
> sees fit.

I agree weekly would be too much for any hobbist, given how
high-volume our list has, but I probably shouldn't have said
"periodical".  Surely, aiming for consistent update is a very good
thing to gain reader trust if anything else, but it is OK if it were
"we will see a new release when enough interesting things happen",
too.

The primary reason I suggested to explicitly state the beginning of
coverage is to set and manage the expectation of the readers.  I
think the current draft roughly covers 1/4 - 1/3 of discussions that
happened in the month of March 2015 and nothing earlier than that,
so "This issue covers what happened in March" or something would be
appropriate.  I'll throw a pull-request.

>>  - As an inaugural edition, we may want to have a word on
>>    how it came in existence by covering the discussion that
>>    led to its birth. Perhaps the discussion that led to the
>>    publication should be made into as an item on its own,
>>    next to "make git-pull a builtin", "Forbid log --graph..." etc.
>>    Because it is neither a review nor a support discussion,
>>    "Reviews & Support" heading may want to become
>>    "Discussions". I think that is a better title for the section
>>    anyway, if its purpose is "what happened on the list that
>>    are not visible from "git log", as I expect future editions
>>    to cover design discussions that advanced the shared
>>    understanding of a problem but not quite solidified to
>>    become a patch series.
>>
>
> I hope it's OK that I leave this bit to Christian.

I took a stab at this myself, and threw another pull-request.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-22 11:03 Draft of Git Rev News edition 1 Christian Couder
2015-03-22 11:21 ` David Kastrup
2015-03-22 12:19   ` Christian Couder
2015-03-22 20:52   ` Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
2015-03-22 21:24     ` David Kastrup
2015-03-22 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-22 20:50   ` Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
2015-03-23  4:49     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-03-23  5:00       ` Christian Couder

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