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Anant Narayanan wrote: |
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> Good day All, |
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> Sorry for the thread hijack, but... |
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>> GWN: The GWN is currently in a permanent state of hiatus. I have no |
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>> intentions on spending another minute working on the GWN. While many, |
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>> many improvements have been made in the processes for getting the |
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>> automated data, getting articles has been pulling teeth, at best. This |
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>> was taking me upwards of 12 hours a week, which was impacting the time I |
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>> had available to work on things like releases and my day job. As such, |
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>> the GWN is abandoned and will likely stay that way until someone steps |
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>> up and decides they're ready and willing to give up their lives to work |
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>> on this publication. Yes, I think switching to a monthly newsletter |
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>> would *help* the problem, but it still won't resolve it. The GWN needs |
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>> articles more than anything, and few people are submitting anything. |
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> If nobody has a problem with making the GWN a GMN (Monthly newsletter), |
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> then I am willing to volunteer to get this project back on track. Even |
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> if few people actually submit anything, I think there is enough activity |
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> going on this list, the planet and -commits to fill up a newsletter |
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> every month. And I'm willing to invest 12, even 15, hours a month to get |
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> this thing rolling again. |
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If you do, I can start doing package mask reports again. I stopped when |
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the GWN did since I didn't think it was very interesting to -dev readers |
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that see the individual announcements anyways. |
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