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... and back to this thread after a few weeks :)

The conclusions I saw were:
* Audience for openstack-announce should be "users/non-dev"
* Service project releases announcements are good
* Client library release announcements good
* Security announcements are good
* Internal library (particularly oslo) release announcements don't fit

Open Questions:
* Where do Internal library release announcements go? [-dev or new 
-release list or batched inside the weekly newsletter]
* Do SDK releases fit on -announce?


Regards,


Tom


On 20/11/15 12:00, Tom Fifield wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to get your thoughts about the OpenStack-Announce list.
>
> We describe the list as:
>
> """
> Subscribe to this list to receive important announcements from the
> OpenStack Release Team and OpenStack Security Team.
>
> This is a low-traffic, read-only list.
> """
>
> Up until July 2015, it was used for the following:
> * Community Weekly Newsletter
> * Stable branch release notifications
> * Major (i.e. Six-monthly) release notifications
> * Important security advisories
>
> and had on average 5-10 messages per month.
>
> After July 2015, the following was added:
> * Release notifications for clients and libraries (one email per
> library, includes contributor-focused projects)
>
> resulting in an average of 70-80 messages per month.
>
>
> Personally, I no longer consider this volume "low traffic" :)
>
> In addition, I have been recently receiving feedback that users have
> been unsubscribing from or deleting without reading the list's posts.
>
> That isn't good news, given this is supposed to be the place where we
> can make very important announcements and have them read.
>
> One simple suggestion might be to batch the week's client/library
> release notifications into a single email. Another might be to look at
> the audience for the list, what kind of notifications they want, and
> chose the announcements differently.
>
> What do you think we should do to ensure the announce list remains useful?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
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