Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

[Joe Peterson]

This sounds promising.  One problem I see, however, is that this would
require announcements to get posted to *both* lists and for people to
remember this rule.  Posting only to "-dev", of course, makes sense, but
posting only to "-dev-announce" would cause strangeness (as all devs who
want more mail would miss these mails and end up *not* getting all of
the mail).

There are two ways around this:

1) Make -dev-announce an umbrella list that always goes to both lists
   (this can be done by having two sublists - each dev subscribes to
   one or the other, depending on preference, but not directly to
   -dev-announce; or it can be done by having -dev-announce include the
   "gentoo-dev@g.o" address plus the individuals who only want
   announcements).

2) Mailman has a feature called "topics".  It can be set up so that each
   subscriber can set whether they want to only get announcements or get
   all messages.  Posters wanting to hit everyone put a keyword in the
   subject like "Announce:"  Not sure if the mlm users here has such
   a feature.

I've done it both ways, and there are pros and cons.  Just be wary of
having the requirement that announcements are sent to both lists by the
sender in order for the system to work right.

					-Joe
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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm back for my yearly posting about creating a gentoo-dev-announce
> list [1]. Fedora recently created a fedora-devel-announce list with a
> great description of how it works, what's posted to it, etc [2], which
> got me excited about making this happen in Gentoo.
>
> Last time the issue came up, numerous people supported it, but nobody
> followed through to get the list created. This time, I'm going to file
> a bug to the infra team to make it happen.
>
> What's this mean for you? If you want to ignore -dev, you can just
> subscribe to -dev-announce. But you will lose your ability to
> participate in discussions leading toward decisions. If you have an
> announcement relevant to development, post it to both -dev
> and -dev-announce. Replies will go only to -dev.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
> 1. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_136761.xml
> 2.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-June/msg00000.html

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