From: Pat Eyler <pate@...>
Date: 2002-08-15T04:25:49+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby Weekly News

Hi James,
there are a couple of reasons things might not show up in a particular
RWN.  This week things were further muddled by server issues on my
end, Holden ended up filling in at the last minute.

In general, Holden and I select things which a) seem to have developed a
large 'wake' of email, and which b) interest us.  I don't remember Tom's
thread, but I probably would have mentioned Phil's announcement had I not
been wallowing in system recovery.

I've also noticed that a large chunk of ruby software is realeased to the
RAA without announcement to the rubytalk list.  This is unlikely to show
up in an RWN as currently executed.

I'd certainly welcome a well thought out RWN submission from anyone
... just include a summary and a URL.  I can't promise that I'll include
any specific submissions I receive, but it will certainly improve the
odds (and I'll likely learn something from them to boot.)

-pate

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002,  JamesBritt wrote:

> Please don't take this as a knock of the efforts required to produce the
> Ruby weekly news, but I was curious about the criteria for inclusion.  There
> were a few threads and announcements of interest this past week that weren't
> mentioned.  For  example, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> began a thread
> titled "ambiguity between local variable assignment and writter method".
> Phil Tomson's article in Dr. Dobbs magazine was also announced, albeit
> informally.   Neither were mentioned in the last weekly news roundup.
> 
> Just wondering ...
> 
> James
>