The future of the Commit-Digest

[Roger Pixley]

Sounds good. I've sent you a few Writeups off the list before. How many do
you need to have a full bore run at catching up the Digest? We can have a
sprint if you like.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>wrote:

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> Wrote this two days ago, don't know why it isn't reaching the list!
> Sending to you all individually this time too, reply through the mailing
> list.
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>
> Hi all,
> Please read all of this mail, it is important.
>
> I've been thinking a lot over the last few days (it's almost the new year
> after all!), and i've come to the conclusion that i've hinted at lots
> before. I hope it is not a surprise to anyone that I can't continue being
> the weekly editor... i've said all along that i'll build the platform to
> allow distributed creation of Digests (and this is almost complete), but I
> never wanted to actually become full time editor like I used to do. I just
> don't have the time anymore.
>
> I know this is a young community, but it's time to sink or swim! :)
> I'm hoping it's swim, and i'll do all I can to help a successful outcome.
>
> So here is my plan.
> For the last few days (and the next few too) I have been working on cutting
> down the Enzyme bugs list that I have, and also working on the final
> improvements, like the feature editor interface. These improvements are not
> yet in the production system, but I want to have all the development on this
> done before 2011.
>
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> This is where you guys come in:
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>
> I urgently need people to help do what i've been doing (ie. chief editor),
> both to catch up on getting the Digests out the door, and also to take this
> over going into the future.
>
> This will work out, because in getting the old ones released you can learn
> what to do - i'll show you how! - for complete new future Digests.
>
> So I need people to come forward for this immediately: not so much for
> years-long commitment, hopefully we can get a few people to do this, and
> more in the future, but I need at least one commitment for right now.
>
> A huge problem for me right now is that i'm trying to finish the needed
> features for Enzyme, and also try and get Digests out the door, which is
> time consuming since people have selected about 500 commits per issue right
> now!
>
> Then, over the coming days I can be on IRC / Email to help you learn the
> ropes.
> The main job is:
> * doing a final check of included commits, making sure they are classified
> correctly, removing any boring ones
> * writing the synopsis from the weekly commits (this is easier than it
> sounds)
> * pressing publish then submitting a story to the Dot (autogenerated text!)
>
> If this sounds like something you can do (you get the chief editor credit
> at the top of each Digest you do this for too!), please let me know as soon
> as possible.
>
> Many thanks,
> Danny
>
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