[Centos] RFE: Please create a announcement mailing list

[dag at wieers.com (Dag Wieers)]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> 
> > Ok, when we're already discussing the update/errata announcements here
> > are some more things to consider:
> > 
> > 1. all announcements should be GPG signed by a central CENTOS key
> > 2. md5sums and/or sha1sums should be listed next to each rpm filename
> > 3. the announcements should be a little more verbose (include
> > ChangeLog, release date, obsoletes, advisory id, ...). Use the RHES or
> > Fedora announcements as templates
> > 4. a web-site like https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4es-errata.html
> > should be created
> 
> And you're the guy who pays me my wasted time for making pretty
> announcements, right?
> 
> No personal pun intended, but at least i do hate most the 'formatting
> announcement' part of this 'job'.... 
> 
> ... if you want to pay for that, you better pay redhat, which is making
> those pretty announcements.
> 
> All the RPMS are signed with the official keys, so it would not bee
> even needed to sign the announements itself. At the end, only RPM
> signature is important, all the rest is just extra.

Pasi, nobody implied you should be doing this manually. I think the 
suggestion is perfectly valid and can be completely automated. As soon as 
it is being published an announcement is send out.

We only need someone to write and integrate it. And since Bernd 
suggested it... :)

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