On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: > 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.
All good points. +1 d _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
