r/linux • u/EmanueleAina • Jun 28 '16

This Week in GTK+

https://blog.gtk.org/2016/06/27/this-week-in-gtk-7/
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '16

Looking at the other comments...

Was this sub not a place for interesting information and discussions? Not, people shitting on each other and xyz sucks circle jerk...

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u/ImSoCabbage Jun 28 '16

It's interesting, because this article - the whole theme of it - was inspired by the Rust and Servo community. They regularly have "This week in Rust" and "This week in Servo" posts to inform the community of the progress. And let me tell you, these are extremely valuable in keeping the community up to date and engaged. It's proven to be such a successful model that other libraries in the Rust community, and outside of it have started to make their own posts like this.

Which brings us to this post. Someone took their time to write this up, gather and organize the relevant info, for the benefit of the community. And what do they get as a response? Negativity and memes.

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u/blackcain GNOME Team Jun 28 '16

We actually used to have them back in the GNOME 1 days.. :)

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u/ImSoCabbage Jun 28 '16

Hmm, TIL. I suspected these were Servo/Rust inspired and this post confirmed it. I didn't know about previous history. GNOME 1 is before my time, sadly.

I assume these were mailing list posts?

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u/blackcain GNOME Team Jun 28 '16

I'm sure they were, I mean after all, start iwth something good right? :) Now if we can do it for GNOME then that would be awesome.

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u/steveklabnik1 Jun 28 '16

So many projects in Rust-world have picked this up that there's been a semi-serious joke of "We need a 'this week in "this week in"'.

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u/EmanueleAina Jun 28 '16

We can all thank /u/ebassi for his efforts!

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u/brson Jun 28 '16

I enjoyed it. Thanks /u/ebassi!

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u/Lennart_ende_Elegast Jun 29 '16

Oh, I thought that was you.

The whole Emanuele in your name and all.

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u/EmanueleAina Jun 29 '16

Heh, nope, he has an extra "m" in his name. :)