Quoting Joe Harrington <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > It would be good if the fedora-legacy-announce emails had the same > format as the fedora-announce-list emails. They have the same format as the Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux announcements instead, no? > Specifically, each message > should state the distro it's for in the subject. I don't like having > to dig (deeply) through each email to determine if the update applies > to one of my systems. I'd rather be able to look at the summary at > the top of the daily archive message and see it in the list there. And I don't really want to get 4-6 copies of each advisory just because it applies to that many releases. It would make my job of updating the web site a lot harder also. And make the job of those releasing the advisories at least a bit harder... I'm not saying this can't be changed, but I am saying that other people have different needs, and that we are following a well established Red Hat method of doing things (even if Fedora Project differs). > In pre-post discussions, it was suggested that my suggestion would > proliferate the number of emails. While true, the solution already > exists: get the list in archive form on a daily basis (when there is > mail at all). This may not be practical for many people/applications. > The announcements are not of a down-to-the-minute, > time-critical nature. I think some people would disagree with that. > An alternative would be to have a list per > release. But, I think following the Fedora Project would be the way > to go. You haven't convinced me. While you've provided reasons both for and against your argument, you've not managed to make me see why either way is really better. > So, following the pre-post discussions, I'll ask: > > How do others feel about following Fedora's one-post-per-OS scheme? I don't like it, for the following reasons: * More work for the people cutting updates (unless they can automate this more for the future) * More work for me (I update the advisories on the web site from the e-mails sent to the announce list) * Too many e-mails (and sometimes digest formats just aren't desirable). * Most other distros do it our way (only Fedora Project differs that I know of, though there are probably others). > --jh-- -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Why get even? Get odd! -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
