Joshua Slive wrote:When I originally proposed the announce@apache.org list, the purpose was
this: Each project would send their announcements to their own list (eg.
announce@httpd.apache.org) AND send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That
way people could choose whether they wanted announcements only from
particular projects or from the foundation as a whole.
In other words, announce@apache.org was meant to be a moderate to high traffic list with lots of announcements.
Ah! It sounds as if other people aren't aware of the background and
original intent. From what you are saying, announce@apache.org should be
subscribed to announce@<tlp>.apache.org. That way announcements would
automatically funnel to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ahh, this sounds great and this should be the use of announce@apache.org, IMHO. Now how can we do that... at first we'll need a list of all the announcement lists, so that some friendly person from the apmail group can do the required magic to get this done (assumed there are no objections, and I can't think of one :) ).
Okay, please add to the list:
announce@httpd.apache.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce@incubator.apache.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] announce@perl.apache.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
Not all projects have an announce@, but that can be addressed. Probably a
good idea, too.
Huh, I'm not sure if *every* project *needs* an announcement list, that would mean quite a lot of very low-volume lists! At least for projects without separate cvs-/bug-lists, the development list should be really sufficient for announcements too. But we should absolutely try to address that all the projects are aware of their possibility to post to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I simply can't imagine why a project shouldn't use this ASF-wide announcement list as an additional 'marketing instrument' (given the content fits, e.g. major release, drastic project change).
Well, as for the top-level projects, I'd agree that at least they should have own announcement lists...
Cheers, Erik
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