Re: [fab] Split Fedora-Announce-List

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:58 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said: 
> > > 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.
> 
> Opportunities for education. I think the overhead of having to
> continually create and maintain different mailing lists (and
> point all the update announcements at different places per release,
> etc.) isn't worth it.

Educating the unwashed masses is a daunting prospect.
fedora-watch-list sounds a reasonable compromise. 

> 
> We could go down the RHN route.... most general package updates
> aren't announced, and data is pulled from the update tool. How's
> that advisory-in-pup work going?

Pretty well from watching yum devel list discussions.

Rahul