Suggestion: a list for important announcements

[Christopher Aillon]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 04 May 2007 08:55:21 Simon Perreault wrote:
>> Here's a suggestion: create a list, say
>> fedora-maintainers-announce at redhat.com, where only core people would have
>> the right to post. These posts would be important announcements like "ok
>> people, feature freeze for the next 3 weeks" or "please rebuild if XYZ
>> affects you". Posts to this list would always be cross-posted to
>> fedora-maintainers, where ensuing discussion could take place.
>>
>> This is inspired from a similar scheme used for KDE development.
> 
> We have that, sortof.  We just haven't kicked it into gear yet.  Unfortunately 
> with such a list you miss out on a lot of the dialog and discussion that 
> happens around such announcements, like all the general discussion and usage 
> suggestions for koji.  You'd get the announcement that we're using koji... 
> and not much else.
> 

Well, I do agree that there's alot of discussion on here that should go 
on fedora-devel.  The firefox langpacks mess for example.