From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A way to communicate announcements to developers Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:55:14 -0600 Message-ID: <857fy1bst9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418082969 15698 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 23:56:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 23:56:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 00:56:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89o-00076Z-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:56:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89o-0007EZ-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89T-0007ES-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:55:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89O-0005Bs-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from gproxy7-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([70.40.196.235]:59199) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89N-0005Bk-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:55:33 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 13285 invoked by uid 0); 8 Dec 2014 23:55:28 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw2) (10.0.90.83) by gproxy7.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2014 23:55:28 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw2 with id RBvN1p00N2UdiVW01BvRpA; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:55:28 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Hd2HEE08 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=jrwKn-8xaegA:10 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=30t7Mf3uiXlulyj-nnwA:9 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] (port=54757 helo=TAKVER) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy89C-0007mL-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:55:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:09 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 70.94.38.149 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 70.40.196.235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179498 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Please set up a mechanism to communicate important announcements >> (feature freezes, all documentation now to be in esperanto, that kind of >> thing) to developers. It's been discussed before but nothing ever >> happened. I still favour an emacs-devel Mailman "announce" topic, but >> anything will do, so please don't spend ages discussing the very best >> way. A web page to check, whatever. > > I think gnu.emacs.announce would work just fine for that, actually. > We normally only use it to announce releases, so we shouldn't add too > many messages in there. But announcing the feature-freezes sounds OK. +1. That gives us a small archive to check, even if we are not monitoring the list continuously. Hmm. Except that's a newsgroup; is it archived somewhere official (ie other than Google groups)? The Savannah list of Emacs newsgroups at https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=40 says info-gnu-emacs is for announcements. It currently has announcements of pretests and release candidates, as well as some ELPA package releases. Ah; it looks like gnu.emacs.announce is a mirror of that mailing list (or vice versa). -- -- Stephe