fedora-devel-announce for ABI/API/soname breakage announcements (was: Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090306) FESCo meeting)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 05.03.2009 21:44, Jon Stanley wrote:
> 
> 57	Make stronger policy/guideline that ABI/API/soname breakage should
> always be announced fedora-devel-announce (not f-d-l)

Why not simply mail f-d-l as well as all the maintainers of packages 
that are affected (and not fedora-devel-announce!)? A simple command 
line script is able to do that in case MTA's like sendmail or postfix 
are properly configured. That script likely could write a comma 
separated list that people can cut-n-paste to Thunderbird, Kmail and 
other MUA's if needed.

Reason: I for one slowly start to get annoyed by the slowly increasing 
traffic on fedora-devel-announce that clutters my inbox. Thus I started 
to consider to move mails from that list into some IMAP folder 
automatically, and that is exactly what we didn't want people to do when 
fedora-devel-announce was created. I think we said something like "less 
then 10 mails a month" back when we created it, but I could not find 
that on a quick google search :-/

CU
thl

P.S.: I on purpose comment here on the list and not in the ticket where 
this comment would be hidden by most of those that will be are affected 
by the change.