[aspect-devel] ASPECT newsletter

[Austermann, Jacqueline]

Hi René,

I also think this is a great idea. Whether biweekly or monthly is more appropriate depends for me on the amount of updates (e.g. if you have 5-10 updates every two weeks I would have a biweekly newsletter; if it’s only a couple I would group it to a monthly email). I’d be interested in updates on pull requests as well as issues.

Thanks for all your work!

Jacky



> On Feb 21, 2016, at 3:07 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.
> 
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> 
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