> I know it's stretching the scope of what you are talking about, but it would be also good to have some kind of "Action Required" type comms outside of the Dev mailing list for important changes that plugin maintainers need to know about to stop plugins breaking.
Yes, this is a good thing to do, especially in the case of the 2.277.x release when many users were affected. +1 for that, especially if we aggregate all key upcoming changes in a single digest. On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 4:12:06 AM UTC+1 Mark Waite wrote: > Sounds like a good idea to me. > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 5:29 PM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As a follow-up to the discussions in the Advocacy&Outreach SIG, I would >> like to propose creating a new low-traffic mailing list for distributing >> news and contributor announcements. >> >> The main reason for this mailing list is creating a channel of contacting >> contributors and plugin maintainers who do not regularly read the developer >> mailing list and whom we would like to contact in the case of major >> community events (hackathons, contributor summits, elections, etc.). Right >> now we have only a few options like using LDAP accounts and SendGrid, which >> is not very convenient for community organizers and does not offer >> contributors a way to opt-out. >> >> I propose to use a new Google Group, e.g. >> "jenkins-contributor-announcements". Then we can update the website to >> reference it, and announce it through other channels. Not sure how >> effective it will be, but I think it worth trying. What do you think? >> >> Best regards, >> Oleg Nenashev >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLCdrdvvZH1a6UC-We%2BmkGRs0WfNXq-BC-XihR-p%3DsQyyQ%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLCdrdvvZH1a6UC-We%2BmkGRs0WfNXq-BC-XihR-p%3DsQyyQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/f5746492-8a2f-442d-b5bd-d91e977bc469n%40googlegroups.com.
