[X2go-dev] X2go announcement-list and messages from git-admin

Paul van der Vlis paul at vandervlis.nl
Mon May 2 12:35:23 CEST 2011


Op 02-05-11 12:15, Mike Gabriel schreef:
> Hi Paul, hi all,
> 
> On Mo 02 Mai 2011 11:54:31 CEST Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> 
>> From an announcement list I would expect a low volume list what gives
>> information when a new version arrives or when there are security issues
>> or when there is a congress or something like that.
>>
>> But the x2go announcement list [1] does completely something else, what
>> I see are many change-messages from git-admin:
>> https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-announcement/2011-April/thread.html
>>
>>
>> I think it would be better to change the usage of the announcement list
>> and to make it an informative low volume list.
>>
>> Further, I see on the page of the list [1] this text:
>> --------
>> To post a message to all the list members, send email to
>> x2go-announcement at lists.berlios.de.
>> --------
>> I think that's wrong, because it's a read-only list.
>>
>> With regards,
>> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> The purpose of the x2go-announcement list is to announce new versions of
> X2go related projects. To automize this we have set up the individual
> X2go git projects to post to x2go-announcement whenever a Git project
> has been tagged.
> 
> Of course, this presumes that a tag equals a release. Probably the mail
> body has been beautified and customized for the X2go project, as well.
> Currently we use some Git default announcement template.
> 
> The high noise on the list is related to all the Git (re-)structuring
> that has occurred lately. In the future I expect a far lower volume on
> that list.
> 
> Any comments on this?

Wouldn't it be better to remove this "Git default announcement template"
and to make postings to the announcement-list by hand?

I would like short announcements, with links to more information (e.g. a
changelog). Or better: a little short newsletter.

The information from Git could go into the dev-list.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




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