Stefano Maffulli wrote: > 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.
I think the -announce list can be used as a reference channel, from where given posts can be highlighted in Twitter, blogposts, weekly newsletter, etc. >> 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. In addition to mentioning the list on "getting started" pages, if you keep on pointing to the -announce archived posts when tweeting about something, some people will realize subscribing to the source will give them earlier access to the information. If they care enough, they will subscribe. >>> 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. > [...] > 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. I think we should also formally announce things like elections and election results on that (reference) channel. Obviously the news would be echoed in a lot of other channels, like the OpenStack blog/newsletter. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
