Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce e-mail sending nonsense (Was: Last rites: x11-libs/gtk+:1)

[Mart Raudsepp]

Ühel kenal päeval, L, 07.01.2017 kell 14:18, kirjutas Rich Freeman:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If gentoo-dev feel the need to set Reply-To in my place, then
> > gentoo-
> > dev-announce should do the same and not throw my mail into
> > /dev/null,
> > but into some regular moderation rules after setting the Reply-To
> > itself then.
> >
>
> Not all replies to gentoo-dev-announce should go to gentoo-dev.  Some
> belong on gentoo-project, or maybe even gentoo-nfp or some other less
> common list.  Hence the need to set a reply-to.

1) It is called gentoo-DEV-announce; there is gentoo-announce for the
other stuff already.
2) It could keep an existing reply-to and set the default if none is
set, instead of just making the mail disappear with no notice of any
kind for spam reasons
3) I still haven't seen my announce mails after setting a Reply-To, so
I assume there's manual moderation anyways.

> Perhaps it should just be called gentoo-announce, though it is mostly
> aimed at developers.

Such a gentoo-announce list exists. Mostly has the GLSAs.

> In the past people used to send stuff like this
> to -core, but that led to a lot of over-use of -core which is private
> to devs only.  Now -core is only used very rarely and for the sorts
> of
> things it was intended for (exchanging phone numbers at conferences,
> etc), so in that it was a pretty big success and it makes us more
> open.

Thanks for the history lesson. It is interesting you know that stuff
about that this was on -core prior to -dev-announce, considering you
became a developer in December 2007, while gentoo-dev-announce was
created in July 2007 and the last rites have went there since then.
(And I have sent last rites since early 2007 at least). Though I'm
pretty sure this information about last rites to -core is wrong, but my
memory fades and my old -core is archived up somewhere offline :D