[Centos] RFE: Please create a announcement mailing list

[bernd.bartmann at gmail.com (Bernd Bartmann)]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:00:20 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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... :)

Of course I meant to do as much automated as possible. Sure, I can
offer my help here. If someone gives me some pointers to the inner
workings of the build / publish system?
Is there already something like an advisory id database?

cu,
Bernd.