Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:10 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:11 PM, winniehell <dja...@winniehell.de> wrote: >>>> We had a little private discussion about this. Is this list meant to be >>>> for product announcements? I personally don't like to get product >>>> announcements on mailing lists because I'm in most cases not interested >>>> in the offered products. >>> >>> We don't prohibit commercial announcements, but they need to be on >>> topic, and the poster needs to show some moderation -- we don't mind >>> an occasional major announcement, but a weekly point release >>> notification would be excessive. >> >> Does Django have an announcement list that we could use for >> announcements like these ? > > We have an announcements list, but it's for official Django > announcements, and we don't want other commercial material on that > list because when we post to it, we *need* people to pay attention > (for security updates, and so on). > > As for a 'django community announcements' list: I can see how that > might be useful, but I can also see that it introduces a whole bunch > of new headaches. We have enough problems getting people to post to > the right list when there is only two (django-users and django-dev); > adding a third has the potential to just confuse things more...
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