Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 14:48 -0500, Aisha Tammy wrote:
> On 1/3/21 3:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> > 
> > I think it would be really great if we could publish a summary of
> > (good) things that happened in Gentoo in 2020.  We weren't able to
> > maintain Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, nor Monthly.  However, we might be
> > able to manage at least a yearly Newsletter ;-).
> > 
> > I know I'm going to regret this but I volunteer to take care of
> > combining and publishing the data.  Nevertheless, I'd really appreciate
> > if you could reply to this mail with ideas of what you think would be
> > worth listing.  I'd also use a native English speaker for editorial
> > help.
> > 
> > 
> > Please reply with your ideas in the form of:
> > 
> > [sort-key] **A short sentence summarizing the change.**  1-3 sentences
> > of detailed explanation.
> > 
> > I think we'll publish this on the website, so please use Markdown
> > and possibly link to the relevant projects.  The idea is that the users
> > can skim through the changes in bold, and decide whether they want to
> > read on.
> > 
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> >   [dist-kernel] **The [Distribution Kernel](https://...) project was
> > launched to install kernels directly from ebuilds.**  To lower
> > the entry barrier and maintenance effort, the project also provides
> > a stock configuration for popular architectures based on Fedora.
> > 
> > 
> > I think we'll then split it into a few groups.  I'm thinking of:
> > 
> > 1. New developers (yay!).
> > 2. Major changes (focused on things impacting end users).
> > 3. Other changes.
> > 
> > 
> > WDYT?
> > 
> 
> Getting the science overlay into a much better and almost usable
> state. There are now enthusiastic people who are starting 
> to contribute to the overlay and adding a lot of fixes.
> So I'd say, getting a new life for the science project is also
> something nice that has happened :D
> 
> Special thanks to chymera and andrew for being super enthusiastic 
> in fixing the overlay :D 

I do appreciate it but I'm not sure if this is something specific
enough to be mentioned in 'major changes'.  I'll see how other things
go and we'll see then.  However, if you have something more specific
like 'we added these super useful packages' or stuff like that, I think
it would be more interesting PR-wise.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny