Excerpts from Tom Fifield's message of 2015-11-19 20:00:20 -0800: > Hi all, > > I'd like to get your thoughts about the OpenStack-Announce list. > > We describe the list as: > > """ > Subscribe to this list to receive important announcements from the > OpenStack Release Team and OpenStack Security Team. > > This is a low-traffic, read-only list. > """ > > Up until July 2015, it was used for the following: > * Community Weekly Newsletter > * Stable branch release notifications > * Major (i.e. Six-monthly) release notifications > * Important security advisories > > and had on average 5-10 messages per month. > > After July 2015, the following was added: > * Release notifications for clients and libraries (one email per > library, includes contributor-focused projects) > > resulting in an average of 70-80 messages per month. > > > Personally, I no longer consider this volume "low traffic" :) > > In addition, I have been recently receiving feedback that users have > been unsubscribing from or deleting without reading the list's posts. > > That isn't good news, given this is supposed to be the place where we > can make very important announcements and have them read. > > One simple suggestion might be to batch the week's client/library > release notifications into a single email. Another might be to look at > the audience for the list, what kind of notifications they want, and > chose the announcements differently. >
+1 for that. Or just move them to openstack-dev, and include a summary in the newsletter. I personally have them auto-archived (something I almost never do) because I can't actually do anything with the information in them. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
