MailChimp

[chriscool]

I sent edition 19 using MailChimp but I did not use the template that Nicola had saved.
I tried it but it looked like the result had lost some formatting.
So instead I just used a new template where I just copied the HTML from the web page (https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/09/14/edition-19/).

The main problem is that the background was white instead of brown. But otherwise the formatting looked better.

It would be nice to find a better solution to have both a good background and proper formatting.

[tfnico]

I thought it looked pretty nice, so I'm all for just doing it this way in the future.

What I would like would be to better automate this process. The manual extra effort is always a bit annoying to remember and to do.

[chriscool]

Yeah, it would be better if it could be automated.
Extracting the interesting HTML could be automated with a simple script. We just need to take everything between two <div> tags.
After that I don't know if MailChimp has APIs that could be used to automate the rest.

[mjaix]

With the "Git Rev News v2.0.5" template, the content is now the one and only editable area,
filled with a tiny "marker paragraph".
Back using templates ... step towards automation.
Feel free to ask me about "fun with mailchimp" at the Git Merge conference :-).

[chriscool]

Great! Thanks again for automating this!
Yeah, let's discuss it at the Git Merge and FOSDEM!