RFC: fedora-devel-announce

[Warren Togami]

Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>> *shrug* I'll give this a +1.  Although if discussion goes to
>> 'fedora-devel' 
>> one wonders what the usefulness of fedora-maintainers will start to
>> be?
>>
> 
> Yeah, I don't get this.  fedora-maintainers is pretty useful - high
> signal, low crap.  The proper reaction to things like this is almost
> never _another_ mailing list.
> 

It is pretty useful if you have the time to follow all the posts and 
read everything.  It is wrong-minded however to expect everyone with 
lesser commitments to be able to read and follow everything on a busy 
discussion list.  For them, they could opt to follow minimally 
fedora-devel-announce.

I'm half-decided on if fedora-devel-announce then kill 
fedora-maintainers.  fedora-maintainers has the benefit of having a 
significantly better signal to noise ratio than fedora-devel-list. 
There is however a detriment to the redundancy.

If folks were willing to be more MILITANT AND CONSISTENT in enforcing 
the "devel only" rules for fedora-devel-list I might be happier about 
killing fedora-maintainers.  But consistent enforcement has proven to be 
impossible to maintain in the past.

We should talk about this issues in tomorrow's FESCO meeting.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com