On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:59:03 -0600, inode0 wrote: > >> Looks like it was sent to the devel list as well. >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174779.html > > 417 messages in December so far! Too easy to miss the announcement, > if one doesn't pay attention to that list for some time. Even if it's just > for a few days, the elections are not open long enough. Right and the sad truth is that busy people will miss announcements even if they are sent to every single Fedora list. >> > Emails like this should see a wide distribution, at the *least* they >> > should be sent to the same set of lists that the other related emails >> > are sent to. I suspect that the election turnout would have been greater >> > if this had happened. >> >> >> People working on the elections certainly try to make the community >> aware of the elections. Unfortunately we never seem to be able to get >> everyone's attention. > > Well, could you *please* decide on a list (or a well-defined set of lists) > where to announce _future_ elections for sure? Well, the main announce list seems safe doesn't it? > It may be helpful to analyze what has gone wrong this time, but that's > useless if no attempts are made at trying to improve for the next > election. I'm happy to try to improve it and I agree it would have been better to have sent it to the other announce lists as well. But I do not think that will prevent someone from missing it in the future. John -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
