From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A way to communicate announcements to developers Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418065543 25967 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 19:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 20:05:34 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 1Xy3ch-0000aZ-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:05:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3ch-0004bm-Gf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33341) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3cU-0004b1-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3cN-0001Cd-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:46936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3cM-0001CL-Q8; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:05:11 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEHAgEfjSQBg0oHhEgFiwGSMYM4jkWBeIISggchgncBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRFxLi7/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEHAgEfjSQBg0oHhEgFiwGSMYM4jkWBeIISggchgncBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99889796" Original-Received: from 69-196-184-187.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.184.187]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 08 Dec 2014 14:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 028EF660F3; Mon, 8 Dec 2014 14:05:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:16:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:179449 Archived-At: > 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. Stefan