Re: [fab] Split Fedora-Announce-List

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Warren Togami (wtogami redhat com) said: 
> > Fedora-announce-list is broken and difficult to read.  We currently post 
> > the important announcements on that list, but those are drown out by the 
> > very numerous package update announcements that happen on the same list.
> > 
> > In order to fix this situation, I propose that we split 
> > fedora-announce-list in this way.
> > 
> > fedora-announce-list
> > 	Announcements of the general Fedora Project go here.  Relatively low 
> > traffic and no extraneous noise.
> > 
> > fedora-updates-3
> > fedora-updates-4
> > fedora-updates-5
> > 	Distribution specific mailing lists for all package update 
> > announcements.  If you use FC4, you subscribe to that list and receive 
> > notifications from Core, Extras and eventually Legacy specific to that 
> > distribution.  When Core + Extras + Legacy eventually merge into a 
> > single project, announcements continue going to the distro specific lists.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> We already use mailman categories for each release; users already have
> the option to only see what they want.

I dont think many people have a clue on what mailman categories are and
how to use them. Separate mailing lists sound cleaner to me. This has
already come up before in the context of the ambassadors project in
which many people felt that keeping track of announcements ad-mist all
the other package updates has been hard. 

Rahul