From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JD7F2-0007Wx-Rs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEBDDE0573; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FE3E0573 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5738064C5C for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.515 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.515 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.516, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7H1HdPhfuuiU for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9FB64DAC for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JD7Ek-0000O7-20 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:02 +0000 Received: from static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.113.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:02 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects and subproject status Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:51:41 -0600 Message-ID: References: <47829A4A.5000905@gentoo.org> <1199910969.8082.57.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <9A4E339C-4E34-4EAE-AC10-595950A280B1@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071218) In-Reply-To: <9A4E339C-4E34-4EAE-AC10-595950A280B1@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: eefbe44d-85a6-470a-acfe-51542ad538c2 X-Archives-Hash: fad74c7c68b58c70550838bb5ea1fdc6 Anant Narayanan wrote: > Good day All, > > Sorry for the thread hijack, but... > >> GWN: The GWN is currently in a permanent state of hiatus. I have no >> intentions on spending another minute working on the GWN. While many, >> many improvements have been made in the processes for getting the >> automated data, getting articles has been pulling teeth, at best. This >> was taking me upwards of 12 hours a week, which was impacting the time I >> had available to work on things like releases and my day job. As such, >> the GWN is abandoned and will likely stay that way until someone steps >> up and decides they're ready and willing to give up their lives to work >> on this publication. Yes, I think switching to a monthly newsletter >> would *help* the problem, but it still won't resolve it. The GWN needs >> articles more than anything, and few people are submitting anything. > > If nobody has a problem with making the GWN a GMN (Monthly newsletter), > then I am willing to volunteer to get this project back on track. Even > if few people actually submit anything, I think there is enough activity > going on this list, the planet and -commits to fill up a newsletter > every month. And I'm willing to invest 12, even 15, hours a month to get > this thing rolling again. If you do, I can start doing package mask reports again. I stopped when the GWN did since I didn't think it was very interesting to -dev readers that see the individual announcements anyways. -- fonts, by design, by neglect gcc-porting, for a fact or just for effect wxwindows @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list