[Frugalware-devel] Frugalware newsletter issue 11

[Miklos Vajna]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:48:12AM +1000, Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Questions I have are -
> (1)   Do you have a preference as to how peoples' names are mentioned?
>  At the moment I prefer to put their real first name, and their IRC
> nick after it in brackets;

that's okay to me. actually we don't hide our real names, one can look
up the authors file and there one will find everyone's real name.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#style

the last section paragraph makes sense. but of course i don't want to
force anybody. i used to use my nick in commits for a very long time, i
still have my nick in my signature. (mainly because i would have the
same signature as the FUSE author if i would remove the 'V' :) )

oh but i do use nicks for some of my friends since their last names is
not unique and using the full real names is longer than their nicks ;)
so probably a matter of taste.

> (2)   Is anyone actually reading the newsletter?  Is there any way of
> telling - perhaps stats from the web server?  I enjoy publishing it
> but I wonder if it's serving the needs/desires of Frugalware's users.
> No-one picked up the 'Bugs fixed' bug in the newsletter which leads me
> to wonder how many people are actually reading it.  Perhaps it needs
> more content, as I'm hoping to add gradually in future issues?

i don't know exactly know what is the correct search term, but here is a
number:

$ grep -c 'GET /newsletter' www.frugalware.org-access_log
30768

the log file is not rotated since 28/Jul/2005. one attempt to make the
newsletter popular is creating a news entry for each issue. that
includes sending a mail to -announce and thus notifying sites like
distrowatch (the current issue is linked on their front page)

- VMiklos
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