"Action required" list?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 13:15:14 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:58:52AM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Idea:
>
> Fedora-devel is full of lots of discussions, but it's getting to be  
> rather high traffic, and many of us are monitoring quite a few other  
> lists.   I am subscribed to about 40.
>
> For things like "Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild" that are of general interest,  
> could be have a seperate list for "important" packager actions?
>
> I'll still be subscribed to both, but lots of topics are about single  
> packages or problems (Evolution bugs, X11, kernel build question, icons  
> for packagekit), so if there is no major event, they are not always  
> stuff we need to keep up with (Mass Rebuild, Noarch subpackages, policy  
> changes or guideline changes) which means you do have to manually read  
> and check off a lot of subthreads to know you didn't miss anything.    
> When threads change topic midstream it's a bit worse :)
>
> I think what I would propose is basically:
>
> fedora-devel-discuss@   (help me with ___, I have a problem with ___,  
> please review my package, individual feature planning, etc)
> fedora-devel-announce@      (general announcements all packagers need to  
> be aware of, outages, broken deps, discussion mostly goes to devel list)
>
> Though I'm sure someone else could come up with a better way to split  
> things up.   Also "discuss" and "announce" may not be the best words.  

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce

I'm confused as to what you are asking for here, since it seems to already
exist?

josh




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