[Fwd: Re: FWN email format]

[Thomas Chung]

On 4/17/07, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org>
> To: Julius Luukko <Julius.Luukko at lut.fi>
>
> On 4/16/07, Julius Luukko <Julius.Luukko at lut.fi> wrote:
> >
> > So I ask you to consider adding the topic list back to the announcement email.
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
> We'll add back TOC in the email in the future issues.
> ---
>
> Thomas and all:
>
> First, sorry for the ways we've messed up the working formula of FWN.
> At least we were able to shake some readers up enough to write in about
> it. :)
>
> To address the concerns, it sounds like we want to format FWN this way:
>
> Issue #
>
> Table of Contents (h1, h2)
>
> (Body of Content)
>
> Below is a copy of the ToC from the latest issue.  Is it too long?
>
> An alternative would be for us to do what Thomas did in the past --
> identify seven or eight topics as headlines and push those up for
> attention.  Then followed by a ToC?  Or just the body of the content?
> More work, but more use.  Makes it more traditionally news-like.
>
>
> Fedora Weekly News Issue 83
>              1. Announcements
>                      1. Fedora Wiki Accounts
>                      2. Fedora-Extras-List going to be closed end of
>                         this week
>                      3. Fedora Development (2007-04-11) Live i386 image
>                         available
>              2. Planet Fedora
>                      1. Fedora's Pidgin Plan
>                      2. Spread Open Media
>              3. Developments
>                      1. Bad gnome-user-share, Bad!
>                      2. Mgetty Still Maintained ? Or, How To Patch And
>                         Rebuild From Source RPMs
>                      3. Administrative Tools Emancipated From GTK+
>                         Tyranny
>                      4. Readahead Lists Need an Update For Rawhide?
>                      5. DELL firmware packaging Saga Continues. A Bug
>                         Gets Squished In rpmUtils.updates.py
>                      6. When Will iwlwifi Work?
>                      7. Where are VirtualProvides Documented?
>                      8. RFE: Mirror/server Do Not Remove Old Kernel From
>                         Updates
>                      9. Three Changes to Packaging Guidelines: 1. Binary
>                         Firmware; 2. Post-Release Naming, 3; BuildRoot
>                         Prepping
>                     10. Bugzilla Policy: Should FC4 Bug Filing Be
>                         Banned?
>              4. Maintainers
>                      1. "FC6" in Fedora 7
>                      2. Packaging Guideline Changes
>                      3. Fedora 7 Test 4 Freeze
>              5. Documentation
>                      1. Fedora 7 Desktop User Guide
>                      2. Common Snippets
>              6. Translation
>                      1. Release Notes Deadlines
>                      2. More on Entities
>              7. Infrastructure
>                      1. Email Addresses
>                      2. The Wiki
>              8. Artwork
>                      1. Fedora Underground Pilot
>                      2. Echo Icons
>              9. Security Week in Review
>                      1. In This Week
>                      2. Schneier on Security
>                      3. Apache.org
>                      4. FreeRADIUS
>                      5. Mark Cox
>             10. Security and Updates
>                      1. Security Advisories
>                      2. Fedora Core 6 Updates
>                      3. Fedora Core 5 Updates
>             11. Events and Meetings
>                      1. FESCo Meeting Summary: 2007-04-05
>                      2. Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-04-10
>                      3. Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2007-04-12
>             12. Feedback


In the past, I only used TOC in my email announcement.
Since the transition, I start using the actual news content in the
email just like many other distro weekly newsletters (Debian, Ubuntu
etc). What is missing from last 3 issues is TOC since I just simply
copy and paste from Raw Text from Wiki.

Starting next issue, I'll make sure to add TOC on top as well as the
content in my email weekly newsletters in the future.

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung