The Enzyme platform is ready.
I built it, but they have not come!
I can't hide my disappointment here: 8 people have so far volunteered (and I thank them), but it's not enough.
I estimate that I need a core of at least 30 people to sustain a weekly Digest - even at this participation level, that's about 83 commits that each person needs to review per week.
Reviewers, editors, and translators are all still urgently needed.
I know from experience that people can drop out or have less productive weeks due to events in their offline lives, and so there also needs to be a buffer - more people are always better!
So please volunteer if you can spare some time out of your week on an ongling basis: http://enzyme.commit-digest.org/
I've spent a lot of time recently - especially in the past month - working on bringing this back to you because I believed there was a big demand for this publication. I really hope I was not mistaken!
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I'm sorry if you've already mentioned it before.
Also, you could link directly to the enzyme screenshot page so people can get a better idea of what the whole work flow will look like - and while you're at it you could mention the page with recent commit messages so people can see for themselves whether they're capable of understanding them.
I wholeheartedly agree that you'd get a lot more people by making a lower barrier to entry than full time, forever commitment (pardon the pun). Something like that people can get an RSS feed / email of commits from particular areas (say Koffice) and - if they have an account - with one click "upvote" that commit as potentially interesting to users. Users could also ask to only get commits with at least x upvotes already in their feed. Registered devs / trusted users could then be sent automatically emailed about commits with >X upvoted commits asking if they would like to publish it to the commit-digest with a single click (and optionally write a 1-10000 sentance description). This way *everything* is optional. Nothing requires infinite commitment. No one feels guilty for having to bail out on any given day / week. This way is much easier and more appealing for people to offer to begin... after all, what's one more email / rss post in your feed? ;)
I'm away now until Thursday evening, but i'll start on some of them then.