MDC newsgroup summaries

Introduction

I propose that the MDC host a new service where, once (and only once) per week, volunteers construct a summary of each Mozilla newsgroup's major discussions and decisions.

The purpose of these summaries would be to make it easier for everyone to stay aware of the major happenings in all groups without having to try staying up to date on the groups themselves.

These summaries would be initially created in this wiki, and then posted to the MDC DevNews weblog, under a new "News summaries" category. This category would not be syndicated to Planet.mo, only the Releases, Security, and Announcements feeds would continue to be syndicated.

The original discussion of this idea is here.

Formatting and structure

• MDC newsgroup summaries - Proposed format
  • With a little bit of care it is possible to copy/paste the posts from the wiki output directly into the rich-text editor of WordPress without having to mess with the formatting. (Example post)

Groups that need summaries

• mozilla.governance
• mozilla.legal
• mozilla.marketing
• mozilla.dev.accessibility
• mozilla.dev.ajax
• mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla
• mozilla.dev.apps.calendar
• mozilla.dev.apps.camino
• mozilla.dev.apps.chatzilla
• mozilla.dev.apps.dom-inspector
• mozilla.dev.apps.firefox
• mozilla.dev.apps.js-debugger
• mozilla.dev.apps.minimo
• mozilla.dev.apps.mozilla-suite
• mozilla.dev.apps.other
• mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey
• mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
• mozilla.dev.apps.webtools
• mozilla.dev.builds
• mozilla.dev.documentation
• mozilla.dev.embedding
• mozilla.dev.extensions
• mozilla.dev.general
• mozilla.dev.i18n
• mozilla.dev.l10n
• mozilla.dev.mdc
• mozilla.dev.mozilla-org
• mozilla.dev.performance
• mozilla.dev.planning
• mozilla.dev.platform
• mozilla.dev.quality
• mozilla.dev.security
• mozilla.dev.tech.crypto
• mozilla.dev.tech.css
• mozilla.dev.tech.dom
• mozilla.dev.tech.editor
• mozilla.dev.tech.gfx
• mozilla.dev.tech.html
• mozilla.dev.tech.java
• mozilla.dev.tech.javascript
• mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine
• mozilla.dev.tech.layout
• mozilla.dev.tech.ldap
• mozilla.dev.tech.mathml
• mozilla.dev.tech.network
• mozilla.dev.tech.nspr
• mozilla.dev.tech.plugins
• mozilla.dev.tech.rdf
• mozilla.dev.tech.style
• mozilla.dev.tech.svg
• mozilla.dev.tech.widget
• mozilla.dev.tech.xbl
• mozilla.dev.tech.xforms
• mozilla.dev.tech.xml
• mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom
• mozilla.dev.tech.xpinstall
• mozilla.dev.tech.xslt
• mozilla.dev.tech.xul
• mozilla.dev.themes
• mozilla.dev.usability
• mozilla.dev.web-development