[fab] Split Fedora-Announce-List

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:53 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> The way that worked well for RHL was separating things into a
> redhat-announce-list that received just regular announcements, and
> redhat-watch-list that received security notices.
> 
> I think per-distro update lists is going overboard. A fedora-updates-list
> or fedora-watch-list should be fine.

This sounds like a good compromise to me.

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