From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mirek Kaim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: A way to communicate announcements to developers Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:22:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418063012 10862 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 18:23:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:23:32 +0000 (UTC) To: Glenn Morris , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 19:23:25 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 1Xy2xu-00042x-8f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:23:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy2xt-0005DQ-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy2xZ-0005Al-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy2xT-0000du-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from col004-omc2s17.hotmail.com ([65.55.34.91]:50902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy2xN-0000dL-2E; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from COL131-W67 ([65.55.34.72]) by COL004-OMC2S17.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:22:48 -0800 X-TMN: [FWwvtnMHWyX9OA+7SUeRkIzi55nVbjSY1GjeeSB27hY=] X-Originating-Email: [mirek.kaim@outlook.com] Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2014 18:22:48.0098 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8120020:01D01313] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 65.55.34.91 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:179433 Archived-At: > From: rgm@gnu.org=0A= > To: emacs-devel@gnu.org=0A= > Subject: A way to communicate announcements to developers=0A= > Date: Mon=2C 8 Dec 2014 12:16:21 -0500=0A= >=0A= >=0A= > Please set up a mechanism to communicate important announcements=0A= > (feature freezes=2C all documentation now to be in esperanto=2C that kind= of=0A= > thing) to developers. It's been discussed before but nothing ever=0A= > happened. I still favour an emacs-devel Mailman "announce" topic=2C but= =0A= > anything will do=2C so please don't spend ages discussing the very best= =0A= > way. A web page to check=2C whatever.=0A= >=0A= > It's not reasonable to expect all developers to follow this (very noisy)= =0A= > list to get such information.=0A= > (I'm considering disabling my subscription=3B I think I'd get more done.)= =0A= >=0A= =0A= perhaps silly idea=2C but how about empty commits? just a message=2C and pr= edefined - always the same - author.=0A= devs can be expected to keep up with the source tree=2C so i guess it could= work.=0A= =0A= =0A= unic0rn=0A= =0A= =