Weekly/biweekly development report?

In the Distutils-SIG, Martijn Faassen wrote:
A recent trend for development projects has been to issue a summary of activity at periodic intervals. It may have started with the development summary at Linux Weekly News, but it's been picked up by other groups such as the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and Mozilla.org. There are also development diaries from various people, most notably Alan Cox: LWN Development page for this week: http://www.lwn.net/1999/0114/devel.phtml LWN Kernel development page for this week: http://www.lwn.net/1999/0114/kernel.phtml Debian Weekly News: http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/debiannews.html Mozilla.org status update: http://www.mozilla.org/status/ Linux kernel update: http://lynx.neu.edu/z/zbrown/kt.html Alan Cox's diary: http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ Should we attempt to have a monthly summary of Python development activity? This is slightly different from the Python-URL postings, which aren't focused exclusively on development, and don't have much editorial commentary. I like LWN's habit of occasionally commenting on the news, saying "This flamewar was rather pointless" or "This recent argument was upsetting because...". The Python version of this might look like: Distutils SIG: Greg Ward posted a proposed interface (URL to a copy). Once some people have commented on it, implementation work should begin. Zope: DC released new database adapters X,Y,Z. Skip Montanaro announced thing W. Python-list: Endless discussion of assignment in while statements; GvR said he's not interested. ... ...etc... Pulling together the information requires several volunteers, because no one can possibly be reading every single relevant mailing list and newsgroup. How could that be made workable? Have a central editor? A CGI script which lets anyone add suggested items, which an editor draws upon for each issue and then gets cleaned out when the issue is released? Include it as part of the Python Journal? Suggestions? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ He told me he was having the time of his life and then fell to the floor unconscious. I didn't take this too personally, although he was not the first person to collapse while talking to me; to tell the truth it has happened quite often. -- Tom Baker, in his autobiography
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Andrew M. Kuchling