On 05/25/2012 12:37 PM, Dean Troyer wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Stefano Maffulli > <stef...@openstack.org> wrote: >> The rationale is that in 2012 we have better ways to send announcements >> out: blogs, RSS, twitter, G+, newsletters, etc. Besides, the list >> hasn't been used for months and nobody complained for the lack of >> content. > > Just because it hasn't been used doesn't mean it shouldn't be > used...there have been a number of notices on the -dev list recently > that could/should have gone out on announcements (folsom-1 > yesterday?). > >> In any case, my idea is to replace the list with a newsletter: people >> interested in receiving regular updates (like the weekly newsletter I >> send out) will subscribe there. > > Part of the point of low-volume announce lists is that when something > _does_ show up from there you pay attention to it. I don't think > parsing through a newsletter achieves the same result at all, neither > do blogs or twitter/FB/G+ unless those accounts are functional > equivalents to -announce, then its just a matter of remembering to go > check them.
We have been posting security advisories to the main mailing list. I worry that they get missed by a lot of pepole since it's such a high volume list. Using the announce list would be great for those. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
