On 02/11/16 03:39 PM, Emilien Macchi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> In Barcelona the release team has been discussing how to improve release >> announcements. Posting them on openstack-dev (for libs) and >> openstack-announce (for main services) has proven to be pretty noisy, >> especially for projects which publish lots of components, like OpenStack >> Puppet or OpenStack Ansible. This actively discouraged people to follow >> openstack-announce, which was really not the goal. > > sorry for that ;-)
lol, ttx named names. i also blame Emilien. > >> At the same time, we can't just stop making announcements. Some people >> (especially on the downstream side) still want to receive release >> announces. And we still want to archive a trace of the release and >> provide a starting point for discussing immediate issues on a given >> release, especially for libraries. >> >> The proposed solution is to create a specific mailing-list for OpenStack >> release announcements (proposed name is "release-announces") where we'd >> post the automated release announcements. Only the release bot and >> release managers would be able to post to it. The "reply-to" field would >> be set to openstack-dev, in case someone wanted to start a thread about >> a given release. By default, it would be set to send in daily digest >> mode, to reduce noise and encourage people to subscribe to it. >> >> The -announce list would get back to low-noise, and be limited to >> highly-important announcements (one email for the final release, emails >> about events, elections...). >> >> Please let us know if you have comments or questions. We'll start >> implementing this plan next week if no objection is raised. > > Excellent idea! i'm ok with release-announce tag as others suggested. i like the reply-to field idea as well. cheers, -- gord __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev