On Tue 29 May 2012 10:36:05 AM PDT, James E. Blair wrote: > Someone pointed out that since the security announcements _haven't_ been > going to the announce list, but the main mailing list instead, that they > are concerned that people may have missed them. That seems like a very > important and valid concern to me.
Same here, I'm concerned that important information is sent out through the wrong channel, not reaching the relevant people. > To punt and say "people will see it on G+ or Twitter or whatever" (as > stated elsewhere in this thread) isn't good enough for a project of this > size. What user should they follow? What hashtag should they search > for? Fundamentally, the same problems will show up That's because, fundamentally, sending out a message to the relevant people is a complex problem. Even if you setup the announce- list, you still have to make sure that people will subscribe to it, and make sure the announcers will use it properly. I assumed that since the list existed formally but nobody cared to use it, it was not needed. >> First of all, it's not clear to me *who* would need to send out >> announcements. Can somebody start from there? > > Release team. Security team. Sounds good enough for me. If those teams want to take care of it, I don't have a problem, as long as they're happy with such a tool. > The announce list is not listed here: > > http://wiki.openstack.org/MailingLists > > As far as I'm concerned, that means we don't have an announce list. No > wonder no one knew about it or used it. I think I removed it from there a couple of weeks ago while rethinking the whole set of mlists. It was there together with other unused lists, I assumed nobody was interested in it. Feel free to add it back and hand the keys to release and security teams. > I disagree with that; people who need to see information of the highest > importance from the project -- releases and security updates -- will > self-select only to subscribe to the announce mailing list, and if we > start using it properly, they will know they are getting the information > they need. We clearly have two different use cases in mind. Since now it's clear that the announce list is for the release and security team, I remove my objection to have a list for announcements. thanks /stef _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
