On 15/2/20 6:17 am, Larry Gritz wrote: > This actually reminds me... I am seeking feedback on whether these > mails are necessary: > > 1. Does anybody actually care about having a separate oiio-announce > mail list, or is oiio-dev sufficient? > > 2. Do releases (certainly minor releases like this) still need a > separate email to oiio-dev (and oiio-announce, depending on the > answer to the above question)? Or is it sufficient to draft a release > on GitHub, and rely on announcements going out to anybody who is > "watching" the project on GH? (Note: it is possible to "watch" at a > level that only tells you about releases, and doesn't have to alert > you to every issue or PR filed.) > > If everybody who cares about knowing right away when specific > releases are drafted are already receiving the GitHub alerts about > those releases, then the other emails I have to remember to send are > redundant, right?
With an announce list setup and running, if it's not inconvenient to maintain then don't change anything. How many are subscribed to announce? If it is a small number then you may consider your effort is not worthwhile. I wouldn't recommend a project "creating" an announce list today as you can get the same result from existing resources, eg github tag feed. Do you run a script to bump versions, tag and announce each release? If you are manually remembering steps, then start automating. You should not treat major and minor releases any different, a release is a release, those maintaining packages only care about what is the newest release for a project. Not having a release announcement only allows an update to be overlooked. While I don't see a need to duplicate release announcements to *-dev lists, it does provide a starting point to reply with build issues, as well as grouping release issues under one common subject. No replies offers a level of certainty that no issues exist. Do you get any replies to announce for build fails? I would suggest adding the github release feed link to the readme for those that don't want to sign up to a mailing list. Maybe remove the announce list if you want to discourage new subscriptions. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list Oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
