On Friday 12 September 2008 18:32:29 David Faure wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2008, Allen Winter wrote: > > I tried sending one release announcement to kde-cvs-announce. > > Where it waited in moderation and never saw the light of day. > > Really !?!? This can't be. I mean, the queue is empty now, so surely > that announcement went in at some point. > Hmm.. I think we mutually agreed to trash the message. We discussed it on irc and came to the conclusion that using k-c-d + k-d was better.
> > We could ask the sysadmins to whitelist a few of the release team members. > > I think I asked about whitelisting my email address many months ago, but I > > don't recall > > why that never happened. > > Added you now. But I have to give you the usual warning: be extra careful with > the volume on that "list". Keep in mind that -everyone- with an svn account > is there, > so only send mails about stuff that affects everyone (and not just e.g. > developers). > And that for every email sent to that list, about 3 or 4 people ask to be > unsubscribed > from it [which can only be done by disabling their svn account] :) > Initially it was only created to announce svn downtime. Basically. > IMHO it's ok to use it for freeze announcements because this also affects > everyone > (although not most of the translators...) (but we won't have that anymore > soon, if trunk > is never frozen, right?). I guess it will become an announcement about > branching instead. > And for releases, so that contributors know when the general public gets > to use their stuff :). > But I'd say that's it; keep volume low, since people are subscribed there by > force :) > This doesn't make me happy. 1) now I'm the "voice of the release team". well, me and Dirk 2) you scare me with all the warnings. this will be a much higher volume list then it currently is. we need to send nags and early reminders for all our milestones. so this isn't a good solution either I think I should be un-whilelisted. _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
