[aspect-devel] ASPECT newsletter

[John Naliboff]

Hi Rene,

> 1. Would you consider such newsletters spam, or would you feel it makes
> your life easier following the development of ASPECT?

I think this would be a great way to keep track of ASPECT development.
In particular, it would be really useful if there is an extended period (2-4 weeks) where I’m not closely following the github page.

> 2. Would you prefer a monthly or biweekly interval?

I think biweekly seems reasonable, but I imagine you, Julianne, Wolfgang, Timo, etc would have the best feel for this.

> 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?

My vote is to include for both merged features and open/finished discussions.
> 
> I have posted an example for such a newsletter below, so that you can
> get a feeling for how it would look like.

This looks great!
> 
> Let me know what you think about this idea (otherwise I will try to make
> a best guess :-)),

Thanks for suggesting and putting all of this together!

Cheers, 
John

> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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