Created: 04-10-2021 · Last updated: 06-08-2026
Archive and tooling home for the email newsletter of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (CDSL) project.
Each edition is stored here as a Markdown file — {month}{year}.md for a monthly
edition (e.g. july2026.md)
and annual{year}.md for a year-in-review (e.g.
annual2025.md) —
holding the plain-text email content in Markdown. The same editions are also
published as blog posts on the guides site at
/news.
The delivery mechanism for the 2026 revival is not yet live. The intended tool is Buttondown, but the account is not yet created and the channel choice (Buttondown vs a reply-to-list such as Groups.io) is still an open decision. Until that is resolved, editions live here and on the blog only; none of the 2026 editions have been mailed to subscribers yet. A subscribe page is staged at csl-guides/users/newsletter.
- docs/PUBLISH_MANUAL.md — operator manual: the full publish workflow (draft with explicit windows → prose edit → edition + archive row → csl-guides blog twin → the pending send step), symptom→cause→cure. The
/cdsl-newsletter-publisherskill is the automated path; the manual is the human fallback and its specification.
scripts/draft-newsletter.py
uses the gh CLI to pull commits and closed issues from every active repo in the
sanskrit-lexicon org over a date window, then writes a structured Markdown draft
(Docusaurus blog frontmatter + an activity log to be rewritten into prose
highlights). Requires gh auth login.
python scripts/draft-newsletter.py # last 30 days → stdout
python scripts/draft-newsletter.py --since 2026-07-01 --until 2026-07-31 --output draft.mdThe end-to-end draft → edit → commit → blog → send workflow (and how this repo
pairs with the csl-guides blog)
is documented in
CLAUDE.md
and encoded in the /cdsl-newsletter-publisher workflow skill.
| Year | Link |
|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Jun) | 2026 year in review |
| 2025 | 2025 year in review |
| 2024 | 2024 year in review |
| 2023 | 2023 year in review |
| 2022 | 2022 year in review |
| 2021 | 2021 year in review |
| 2020 | 2020 year in review |
| 2019 | 2019 year in review |
| 2018 | 2018 year in review |
| 2017 | 2017 year in review |
| 2016 | 2016 year in review |
| 2015 | 2015 year in review |
| 2014 | 2014 year in review |
The 2026 monthly editions revive a series that previously ran in 2021–2023. The August–December 2026 files are placeholder templates (draft skeletons awaiting content), not finished editions.
| Year | Month | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | December | template | December, 2026 |
| 2026 | November | template | November, 2026 |
| 2026 | October | template | October, 2026 |
| 2026 | September | template | September, 2026 |
| 2026 | August | drafted | August, 2026 |
| 2026 | July | drafted | July, 2026 |
| 2026 | June | drafted | June, 2026 |
| 2023 | July | archived | July, 2023 |
| 2023 | June | archived | June, 2023 |
| 2023 | April | archived | April, 2023 |
| 2023 | January | archived | January, 2023 |
| 2022 | December | archived | December, 2022 |
| 2022 | November | archived | November, 2022 |
| 2022 | October | archived | October, 2022 |
| 2022 | September | archived | September, 2022 |
| 2022 | August | archived | August, 2022 |
| 2022 | July | archived | July, 2022 |
| 2022 | June | archived | June, 2022 |
| 2022 | May | archived | May, 2022 |
| 2022 | April | archived | April, 2022 |
| 2022 | March | archived | March, 2022 |
| 2022 | February | archived | February, 2022 |
| 2022 | January | archived | January, 2022 |
| 2021 | December | archived | December, 2021 |
| 2021 | November | archived | November, 2021 |
| 2021 | October | archived | October, 2021 |
| 2021 | September | archived | September, 2021 |
Released under GPL-3.0, consistent with the wider CDSL project.
Dr. Mārcis Gasūns
Dr. Mārcis Gasūns