[aspect-devel] ASPECT newsletter

[Max Rudolph]

Rene,
I think that it's a great idea. I would not view this as spam at all and
would appreciate the opportunity to stay more in the loop about aspect
development.

Max

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Rene Gassmoeller <
rene.gassmoeller at mailbox.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> We are currently considering implementing an automated regular (biweekly
> or monthly) newsletter that summarizes the latest developments inside of
> ASPECT and would like to ask for your opinion on this issue.
> The reasoning behind this idea is that most of the "developer" talk
> about new features has moved to the Github platform
> (https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect), but Github offers no option of
> only receiving a summary email, you either get only emails mentioning
> you, or you get all about ASPECT - possibly a hundred per week in busy
> weeks.
> On the other hand only reading the changelog
> (https://aspect.dealii.org/doc/doxygen/changes_current.html) for every
> new release every 6 months or so keeps you out of the loop for a long time.
>
> We are aware that you might already get a bunch of newsletters and we do
> not want to spam this mailing list, so I would like to ask for opinions
> on the following questions:
>
> 1. Would you consider such newsletters spam, or would you feel it makes
> your life easier following the development of ASPECT?
> 2. Would you prefer a monthly or biweekly interval?
> 3. Are you only interested in merged features (pull requests) or are you
> also interested in a list of recently opened/finished discussions
> (issues) to keep up-to-date with bug reports, feature requests, and so on?
>
> I have posted an example for such a newsletter below, so that you can
> get a feeling for how it would look like.
>
> Let me know what you think about this idea (otherwise I will try to make
> a best guess :-)),
>
> Best regards,
> Rene
>
>
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> This is the biweekly ASPECT newsletter.
> Below you find a list of recently merged features and links to the
> discussions about them:
>
> #758 Indent #include statements inside #ifdef...#endif.
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/758
> #753 Rename parameters https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/753
> #752 Visualization improvements
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/752
> #750 Postprocessor for executing shell commands.
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/750
> #748 Use mapping for output interpolation
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/748
> #747 Use static_cast<int> inside each call to std::abs() in gplates.cc
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/747
> #661 Implement interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for
> temperature field. https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect/pull/661
>
>
> Thanks for being part of the community!
>
> Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience
> by writing to aspect-devel at geodynamics.org, or by opening issues or pull
> requests at https://www.github.com/geodynamics/aspect.
>
> Additional information can be found at https://aspect.dealii.org/,
> https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/aspect/, and
> https://github.com/geodynamics/aspect.
>
>
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