On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:46:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:17:18 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> can we haz a cheeseburger^w rss for it? please! ;-)
>
> Ah, I'll have to write one.
>
> Andrei mentioned that'd be one benefit of using something like WordPress, but I was like meh, the content is the hard part, I'll just use ddoc. I didn't even consider rss (I've never actually used it myself...)
>
> But it shouldn't be hard to slap something together.

RSS is pretty elegant in its simplicity, it is just a matter of generating .xml document that matches generated news feed. It can probably even be done by DDOC too.

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:36:54 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> Some of links in Significant Forum Discussions section doesn`t work

Ooooh there's $1 and $2 in the links and ddoc thinks those are arguments instead of literal dollar signs. Joy.

Fixed now if you want to refresh the page. Thanks for pointing it out!

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:21 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> "Major Changes" => They are weekly, so perhaps "Changes" is enough.

I put a qualifier on it because it isn't an exhaustive list: it is actually just a list of stuff that jumped out at me looking at a diff on the changelog or following the merged PRs.

So kinda arbitrary based on what I happened to see. Similarly, the forum post links are based on ones that I saw pop up a lot - so the more replies it got, the more likely I was to notice it.

A lot of all threads was something I thought about, but it would be awfully long and probably boring, you can see that by just going to forum.dlang.org. On the other hand though, since it is based on my gut feeling, it is arbitrary and biased so I didn;t want to give too much of an impression that this is everything or everything that mattered.

(similarly, if your thread was left out, I'm not saying it was low quality, it just means I didn't happen to see it/think of it when writing this up)


> If you can, add two or three little images to the page, like here:

I'll see what I can do.

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:47:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Out if curiosity - how much of your effort/time did it take to make it?

A few hours (about five) for this first one. I'm hoping each subsequent one will be about one hour. (I was behind schedule not because it took a long time to do, but just because I've had a lot of other things to do too.)

I spent like an hour just trying to find a bugzilla search that was meaningful. Then I manually copy/pasted the links in, put a bit of css style on it over the next hour or so, then wrote up the longer text portions and edited a bit more over the next hour.

But now that I have the basic layout and know how to get the stats I want, I'll either simply copy/paste them as a starting point for next time or write a little program to auto-generate that stuff and manually cut it down to size.

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:56 UTC, aldanor wrote:
> Are you planning to make the content open-source so others could suggest edits more easily?

Maybe. This first one is awfully ad-hoc, it is literally the result of me copy/pasting links and typing up a bit of prose.

You can see the source code here: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.dd


But I do certainly want it easy to get contributions, I could try the wiki or github. I'm kinda leaning toward github since I don't actually want it edited once released, then we'll have a more stable look back too.

> Will there be an archive?

Yes, once the links are up I won't take them down and I'll have a list of them on the index page.

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:48:44 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> It can probably even be done by DDOC too.

Probably, I'll do a helper program though.

BTW the "tip of the week" and "project spotlight" sections are something I put in to keep this interesting to people who follow the forums and are familiar with the rest of the stuff, so I'm really looking forward to them.

That'd be the main place I would want contributions, if only to keep me from talking about myself non-stop. I could fill those in for a year just by blabbing about each module in my misc. github, but then the reader might get the impression that this whole thing is my vanity project!

Of course, that's what I'll do if nothing else is ready when it is publication time, but if any of you want to talk about yourselves and projects a bit, that'd be pretty great.


BTW one commented out section here is FAQs and blog posts. My plan there is to highlight D.learn and SO questions that pop up a bunch and other, longer articles people write. I just didn't have any this week so I left it out, but hopefully we'll get some of those coming up too.

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 15:04:32 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:56 UTC, aldanor wrote:
>> Are you planning to make the content open-source so others could suggest edits more easily?
>
> Maybe. This first one is awfully ad-hoc, it is literally the result of me copy/pasting links and typing up a bit of prose.
>
> You can see the source code here: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.dd
>
>
> But I do certainly want it easy to get contributions, I could try the wiki or github. I'm kinda leaning toward github since I don't actually want it edited once released, then we'll have a more stable look back too.
>
>> Will there be an archive?
>
> Yes, once the links are up I won't take them down and I'll have a list of them on the index page.

GitHub for sure!

On 1/13/15 6:08 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any
> feedback welcome!
>
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html
>
> In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a weekend
> release, so if you want something to appear this week, please try to get
> it to by before then.

Great, thanks Adam!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2sahfo/this_week_in_d_january_12_2015/

https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/998219806858367

https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/555032226526556163


Andrei

On 1/13/15 6:46 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:17:18 UTC, ketmar via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> can we haz a cheeseburger^w rss for it? please! ;-)
>
> Ah, I'll have to write one.
>
> Andrei mentioned that'd be one benefit of using something like
> WordPress, but I was like meh, the content is the hard part, I'll just
> use ddoc. I didn't even consider rss (I've never actually used it
> myself...)
>
> But it shouldn't be hard to slap something together.

Either way would be great. Thanks. All - we're still working the kinks off the format, so please chime in with ideas. -- Andrei

On 1/13/15 7:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:56 UTC, aldanor wrote:
>> Are you planning to make the content open-source so others could
>> suggest edits more easily?
>
> Maybe. This first one is awfully ad-hoc, it is literally the result of
> me copy/pasting links and typing up a bit of prose.
>
> You can see the source code here:
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.dd
>
>
> But I do certainly want it easy to get contributions, I could try the
> wiki or github. I'm kinda leaning toward github since I don't actually
> want it edited once released, then we'll have a more stable look back too.
>
>> Will there be an archive?
>
> Yes, once the links are up I won't take them down and I'll have a list
> of them on the index page.

Idea: put everything in a subdir on dlang.org on our github repo. The newsletter becomes part of the website. -- Andrei