From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2005-01-19T09:16:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News 10th - 16th January 2005

In article <200501180813.16508.transami@runbox.com>, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
>Thanks for the news Tim. Very nice, very helpful.
>
>I've noticed though that a number of threads go unmentioned. I know there's no 
>way to really delve into them all, but I was thinking, it might be possible 
>to put together a script that takes a from and to date, crawls over ruby talk 
>archive, and builds a base "template" for the news. It could list all thread 
>subjects and all [ANN] with links too. Then one could more easily go back and 
>fill in the info. Should save plenty of time.
>
>Anyhow, just a thought.

That's a very good idea. I'll do that :-)

One problem with summarising so many threads into just a few is that what is
an interesting thread depends on the reader. So naturally the selection is
biased by my own interests. For example, if the reader is interested in
Tcl/Tk then there were a couple of good threads last week. If they care
about language design then the ``Inheritance of class variables'' thread
would be a must. There were also discussions on garbage collections, C
extensions, SWIG etc. The Unicode thread should probably have been included.

I have noticed that covering all the [ANN]'s takes a lot of time, since
there are usually so many. Your idea will cut down this time, enabling me to
spend more time covering threads.

Thanks.