From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F7201382C5 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:49:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5798AE086C; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.aisha.cc (mail.aisha.cc [108.61.81.40]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F82DE0849 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:48:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=aisha.cc; s=excisionRSA; t=1609703336; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=N5nY7FU0VFQuct4y+VAmQrIasXlIEb+QTdbzxyBO7vM=; b=UiYtFuwe0Pr/SH7xe3NDAlLY+6b2xvZa5chThDlnOH49vHyZk9t/63mKfTXpGYolsmJkI8 L7dEFb4LzA/UQscOXR28ZLgCt9WaANbDzQdure9bRzFshrVUVvI2PC1AQR2JMxRlMnKl4L pg3kh5sxmHYux/Tv7j+XaE/1T+XMhgBNGQGOuwY9q3UhczpmqNAgacwhcjpHL/5LBCmtnK Fv40yUpb4lx2AHyWvWhcK1jOF24T2DwD9X681dO5w2XxXkGXRhe/QgTS03hyToHfIZvdvg LB+IvCpy/m9B8mxO+YREYVVpqQxJuB97l6Q/NkAsew2KlDMl4bOq4H6pSA3VQg== Received: from [192.168.1.129] (c-73-215-141-174.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [73.215.141.174]) by mail.aisha.cc (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 7f50ba8c (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) auth=yes user=aisha@aisha.cc for ; Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:48:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: <2ef6e4ea5f0027d64cff71f3d210bfb902c84b4f.camel@gentoo.org> From: Aisha Tammy Message-ID: <895556d1-6779-18a1-e918-61ec8862e68b@aisha.cc> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:48:54 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2ef6e4ea5f0027d64cff71f3d210bfb902c84b4f.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 279e861f-932b-4a55-92be-d759d34798f1 X-Archives-Hash: ba800e16dbafceb8973ea113f3928197 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 Cheers, Aisha