I think we should see this as option and let the podling decide. In some cases it's useful but most of time it's enough if you filter the dev / user lists for messages that contain ANNOUNCE in the subject line.
-- Andrei Savu / axemblr.com On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > Why would you want to subscribe to the announce list of every new incubator > project? If you wanted to do that, you'd just subscribe to > general@incubator.apache.org, or even annou...@apache.org. > > Please note, I am not suggesting we disband annou...@apache.org. We > already > have plenty of TLPs using annou...@tlp.apache.org lists, and they post to > that as well as annou...@apache.org. > > All I am suggesting is that we suggest to incubating projects that they > create an project specific announce@ list, so as to create a low-volume, > high-signal news channel. It is my experience that such things are useful. > > > > On 26 March 2013 17:44, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Yep. Obviously, I'm aware we have a foundation-wide announce list. :) > > > > > > It's not very helpful for people who are only interested in one or two > > > projects, however. > > > > > > If I am using Hadoop, and only care about knowing about new Hadoop > > releases > > > or security disclosures, I do not want to: > > > > > > a) subscribe to annou...@apache.org, and receive loads of > > > completely irrelevant junk, or > > > b) subscribe to u...@hadoop.apache.org, and receive even more > > > irrelevant junk > > > > > > Having a high-signal, low-volume announcements list would be beneficial > > for > > > most projects, IMO. And it seems like the sort of thing we should > > > be encouraging right from the start. > > > > > > > > > I think Hadoop would be the best example in ASF, if you really using > > Hadoop, you are probably using Haddop, HDFS, HBase, Oozie, and so > > on... the whole Hadoop Ecosystem projects... and imagine if you have > > to subscribe to all of those and to every new related incubator > > project that comes every month ? > > > > BTW, the traffic on this list is not really unmanageable and will > > definitely not make you consider that this new list is flooding your > > inbox. > > > > > > -- > > Luciano Resende > > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > NS >
