XSF Communications Team - 2021-02-12

I feel like I've asked this before, but for people who aren't in this room how do they submit stuff to the newsletter? I couldn't remember so I went to the website and an old newsletter and don't see it mentioned

Maybe we can include a link at the bottom of the newsletter each week and on the newsletter page of the website?

Sam Whited: see room subject/title

emus: is that pad actual?

I can't see the room subject or title

I mean, there might be a way, but I have no idea how to do that in this client

https://yopad.eu/p/xmpp-newsletter-365days

oh wait, I see it in the bottom bar, but it cuts off (presumably right before the url, it ends in "here"

Which client?

McAbber

Oh, better create an issue :))

It's pretty much abandonware as far as I can tell, there's no point

Although I'm also sure there's a way, I just don't know it.

So the answer is we have a pad, which is good: can we link that on the webpage/in the newsletter?

Not everyone will be in this room

Although I guess this changes every month, so maybe that would be annoying. Maybe we could make a submission form or something? It's hard to figure out how to submit right now.

The last newsletter has this info at the end

And the previous one had it too...

Sam Whited, the pad is the current one (and will be cleared at submission deadline)

hmm, I swear I just looked at the last one

everything from the pad then goes to a github PR

emus, is there a PR yet? :)

I still don't see it

Scroll down...

oh weird, no, there it is, somehow it stopped scrolling before then

"Help us blah blah"

I have a stupid request then, can it include the word "submission" or "submissions?" I know that sounds dumb, but reading this it still sounds like helping put the newsletter together instead of me just submitting a single link

Also if we could do the same and link it from https://xmpp.org/newsletter.html it would probably be helpful

Sam Whited, good ideas!

> It's pretty much abandonware as far as I can tell, there's no point > Although I'm also sure there's a way, I just don't know it. Maybe Holger knows

We had a news with a release last year :)

Oh, fair, I only say that because I've had the same weird race condition where rooms won't re-join for years and it never got fixed, maybe other stuff is being looked at

Poezio and Profanity not good enough yet?

I don't especially care for their UI

Just personal preference; the vertical sidebar makes it a lot easier to scroll through a large roster and I'm willing to give up nice modern features like MAM (though also I desperately want that) for vim keybindings

I prefer the vertical roster in the sidebar and vim keybindings

wurstsalat: No, will try by tonight - sorry everyone ☺ Had some harsh weeks 😩 Sam Whited: Actually Im wondering. We link a lot. The only thing you were right that the new draft is not online yet. There are three ways to contribute: - drop it here in MUC - drop it in the pad https://yopad.eu/p/xmpp-newsletter-365days (we just erase the old content to keep the same link) - make a PR (yes, not open yet) It will usually appear here, if you want to keep a consistent link: https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/milestone/3 Of course, we highly appreciate if one preformulates something. If you can cross check the general formulations in the newsletter from a native perspective we also would be very happy!

oops, that was weird, don't know where that second message came from. I think that was another mcabber bug.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mcabber - Im happy we have many clients but I wonder why people use it exactly?

Sam Whited: I will add the pad to the website aswell

emus: maybe just change that first sentence to "Submissions may be made to [this pad], or the current issue in the [XSF GitHub repository]" and add that same thing to the website?

Thanks!

yes

I started to implement vim as message editor for profanity 😁

The draft PR is finally open for commits! https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/894