fedora-devel-announce for ABI/API/soname breakage announcements

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "JK" == Jesse Keating  writes:

JK> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 23:42 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> > Are you finding what is sent there to not be relevant or important to
>> > you as a packager?  I'm the moderator of that list and I don't think
>> > I've sent or let anything through that wasn't useful.
>> 
>> Well, if the proposal is to send any and all soname bumps there, this will
>> make it much higher volume. And really, nobody needs to know about "library
>> libxyz which is only used by package xyz which is maintained by the same
>> packager has a new soname". ;-)
>> 
>> Kevin Kofler

JK> Well sure, that's a tad ridiculous.  However the solution there is to
JK> alter when its required to send, instead of creating yet another list to
JK> send the silly announcements to, or whatever else.

Indeed, which is why I also suggested in the thread above, the
following exception in the response to Thorsten's original, which
should address Kevin's concern:

> However, there should definitely be a few exceptions to the rule of
> announcement if maintainer performing the breakage, either 1) owns
> all the affected packages and is planning to rebuild them, or 2) is
> a provenpackager/co-maintainer, or otherwise has access and who is
> intending to rebuild all affected packages
> (e.g. xulrunner/firefox). In those cases, a heads-up on f-d-l might
> be nice, but probably not mandatory (although even in thoses cases
> there may be dependent packages that the maintainer is not aware
> of).

Alex