Dear All

To Ian, thanks for all your work in the past, you were a main part (or I 
should say a huge part) of the reason that SME kept going.

When there are minimal volunteers available to do the work, then it seems 
doing an additional post in the forums & having to do special formatting 
etc, is an inefficient use of their valuable & limited time.

My feeling would be that release notes can continue to be sent to 
updatesannounce list, & then a rudimentary post can be made to the forums 
that links to the updatesannounce list
eg
The forum post is a reusable message & just says something simple like
"There are new updates available, for details please see
http://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/ "
or perhaps it could point to the current month
http://lists.contribs.org/pipermail/updatesannounce/2014-December/thread.html

It may also attract attention to end users to subscribe to the 
updatesannounce list & be automatically notified.

That should be minimal additional work for the volunteer doing this job.

It should also not be hard for end user forum readers to be able to click on 
a link & read the mail list announcements.

Regs
Ray



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I Wells" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2014 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [discussion] NFR and Bug updates that are released singly


Hi Dave,

The release notes via email (updatesannounce) continued until I had to step
down. The forums posts finished earlier.

Are you saying that you see value in having the release notes in the forums
again?

Maybe someone can also do an email to forum script - the formatting for the
forum is annoyingly different...

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Liquorice
Sent: Saturday, December 6, 2014 2:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [discussion] NFR and Bug updates that are released singly

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:18 -0800, I Wells wrote:

> I used to that as well at one time. There was no feedback if it was
> worthwhile ...

Did you ask?  B-)  Saying a "thank you" was (honest!) on the list of things
I must do, it just never bubbled to the top.

I found the descriptive sentance or two very useful for deciding if the
bug/new feature warranted an immediate upgrade or it could "wait a while".
Not to mention just knowing what had been tweaked.

> ... so I stopped when I became too busy.

Which is fair enough. Have some belated thanks from me.

--
Cheers
Dave.


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