On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Warren Togami wrote: > Fedora-announce-list is broken and difficult to read. We currently post > the important announcements on that list, but those are drown out by the > very numerous package update announcements that happen on the same list. > > In order to fix this situation, I propose that we split > fedora-announce-list in this way. > > fedora-announce-list > Announcements of the general Fedora Project go here. Relatively low > traffic and no extraneous noise. > > fedora-updates-3 > fedora-updates-4 > fedora-updates-5 > Distribution specific mailing lists for all package update > announcements. If you use FC4, you subscribe to that list and receive > notifications from Core, Extras and eventually Legacy specific to that > distribution. When Core + Extras + Legacy eventually merge into a > single project, announcements continue going to the distro specific lists. > > Thoughts? The way that worked well for RHL was separating things into a redhat-announce-list that received just regular announcements, and redhat-watch-list that received security notices. I think per-distro update lists is going overboard. A fedora-updates-list or fedora-watch-list should be fine. Best, -- Elliot
