On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:00 PM, David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote: > On lundi 4 septembre 2017 02:42:20 CEST Christoph Feck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> release-tools/PACKAGING_HOWTO suggests to inform developers of important >> dates for freezes via the "kde-cvs-announce" list. >> >> These days, only a part of the developers that are subscribed to this >> list are interested in KDE Applications coordination. > > True, I suppose. > >> Do we have (or need) a separate list to reach all (but only) >> developers/maintainers of repositories that are part of the KDE >> Applications releases? "kde-applications-devel" similar to >> "plasma-devel" and "kde-frameworks-devel". > > Can branching/tagging still be posted to more of an "announce" list, > maybe something like kde-devel-announce ? As an occasional contributor to > kdepim I want to know when branching happens, without receiving lots of emails > on kipi-plugins issues or whatever else would be discussed on a > kde-applications-devel mailing-list (which sounds in fact like kde-devel). > >> I remember a recent developer doing commits to the master branches, >> because he missed a notification that 17.08 was already branched. > > And yet he must have been on kde-cvs-announce, if he has a developer account, > no? (iirc that's automatic).
It's still automatic yes. Sadly, this is a trend i've noticed where people filter their inboxes aggressively and only pay attention to a limited subset of it. Everything else either gets read at a much, much later time or is ignored for eternity. For this reason for Sysadmin announcements I don't send them to kde-cvs-announce, but instead bombard all the various project specific lists - because those go into developers "to read today" pile. It's not a perfect fix though - the recent CI overhaul was announced repeatedly several times over the course of a month. None the less, I still got asked after the transition by some folks where their project's coverage had gone. > But maybe the branching hasn't been announced? (I don't remember, sorry if > this theory is wrong). > > -- > David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr > Working on KDE Frameworks 5 > Cheers, Ben
