[gentoo-dev] Using gentoo-announce for more routine decision/ebuild announcements

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

Hi all,

This is a followup on the gentoo-ebuild rhide thread, intented to be more 
visible than the original thread.

The gentoo-announce list currently gets a message in a month or two. IMHO 
it's not very useful that way. Why not open it for all developers to send 
announcements of medium and high importance?

This can include various decisions - unified ebuild style, install -> /usr, 
etc. and announcements of important/interesting new ebuilds and major new 
versions of existing ones. 

I for one am tired of reading the cvs logs, and as Azarah says, most of us 
aren't on IRC 24/7 and can't follow all the discussions that take place.

If you think gentoo-announce is important and should stay as-is, we can 
create a new list for this.

In my view the optimal volume would be around 1 message per day, sometimes 2, 
with the messages being short and succint and any discussions taking place on 
a different list (gentoo-dev, -user, or the team lists).

What do you think?

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel