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* bug#20389: A way to communicate announcements to developers
@ 2015-04-20 21:56 Glenn Morris
  2015-04-21  1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
  2015-04-21 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2015-04-20 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 20389

Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist
Version: 24.5

(Bug report to remind about
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00851.html)

Please create a mechanism to communicate important announcements
(feature freezes, etc) to emacs developers.
No-one should have to read (all of) emacs-devel, it's too noisy.
And the info-gnu-emacs list is not appropriate for this IMO.

FWIW, here's what I would do. It'd only take a few mins to set up:

1. Go to https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/emacs-devel/topics

2. Enable topic filter.

3. Add topic name "emacs-announce"; regexp "emacs-announce"; description
"announcements all Emacs developers should read".
(Using just "announce" may lead to false positives?)

4. Document that developers should subscribe to emacs-devel and at
least subscribe to the "emacs-announce" topic. Whether or not they also
choose to "receive messages that do not match any topic filter" is up
to the individual.

5. Use "Keywords: emacs-announce" in the header of relevant mails.
Better (?) to use keywords: than the subject: header, to avoid all the
replies to said subject being sent out as announcements too. If you
forget to add it to a message, you or anyone else can just resend it.





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2015-04-20 21:56 bug#20389: A way to communicate announcements to developers Glenn Morris
2015-04-21  1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-22 17:18   ` Glenn Morris
2015-04-22 20:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 17:22   ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-21 18:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-22 17:21       ` Glenn Morris
2015-04-22 17:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 18:29           ` Glenn Morris

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