Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #1

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:00:05AM -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >What do you folks think about announcing the creation of this newsletter to
> >ubuntu-announce and inviting the community to subscribe to ubuntu-news?
> 
> I think this is a great idea. I think sending an email to
> ubuntu-announce will certainly inform a wider audience about the
> weekly newsletter.

Done.

> >This list is incomplete; how did you generate it?  (in particular,
> >pcmcia-cs was updated since the release, fixing an important upgrade bug)
> >Do you think it would be beneficial to automatically generate such a list
> >and summarize it on a weekly basis, perhaps highlighting some bugs which
> >were fixed if they are very broad in impact?
> 
> I just manually created the list based on the emails i got via the
> dapper-changes list. Automatically generating a list would be great. I
> would very much love to highlight the bugs fixed by the updates, i
> actually wanted to do that for these but was a little short on time this
> week.

Because we started issuing updates before the release was actually out, a
few were missed this time.  In the future, following dapper-changes should
be sufficient.

> Just so you know, I am going to try and send these out every Saturday
> night (my time) so they arrive sort of like a Sunday paper type of thing.
> Of course please modify or add anything you feel is needed.

I've added a reminder to my calendar for every Friday to remind me to send
in any news that I have.  Is it best to send these to ubuntu-doc, to you, or
just write them up myself in the wiki?

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 - mdz