On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:57:46 +0100 Sebastian Pipping <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/20/11 21:45, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Fabian Groffen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Like Jeroen, I don't think new package releases should be > >> announced on these developer-related lists. > > > > Tend to agree, at least in general. If a genkernel upgrade impacted > > multiple teams/etc, such as requiring changes to install media, or > > the handbooks, etc, then I'd consider it completely fair game for > > the lists. Likewise if some big change that will really impact the > > distro is being considered I'd consider that fair game as well. > > Fair point. > > I'll keep posting to Planet Gentoo. How about gentoo-dev-announce? Version bumps have no place on the dev-announce list /unless/ they impact developers' work directly. It's described as "Gentoo development-specific announcements list". So what you post there is relevant to Gentoo development work. More or less like Fabian said it, if it requires changes or else it will break the distro, that's when you give all developers the heads-up (and not because you want to celebrate the glory of another version release). jer
