[openstack-dev] Too many mails on announce list again :)

Steve Martinelli s.martinelli at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 02:44:16 UTC 2016


I think bundling the puppet, ansible and oslo releases together would cut
down on a considerable amount of traffic. Bundling or grouping new releases
may not be the most accurate, but if it encourages the right folks to read
the content instead of brushing it off, I think thats worth while.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last November, we discussed the OpenStack-announce list, defined its
> purpose more finely and moved some internal library announcements to
> -dev[1].
>
> For reference, 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.
> """
>
> Unfortunately, the traffic on this list again regularly exceeds 100
> messages a month - worse than last time we talked about it.
>
> The feedback continues to come in from users that they find it more 'spam'
> than 'source of important announcements', which is not good news!
>
> Quite a lot of the email rush tends to come from when a particular project
> releases multiple 'components' at once. A fine effort of release
> management, but in the current system each component's release triggers its
> own email.
>
> For example, today the puppet team has been doing some great work with a
> 9.3.0 release. Many modules were updated. That's an "important
> announcement" for many of our users.
>
> However, to get the "low-traffic" bit, we need to make that 1 email,
> instead of 30 :)
>
>
> At least, that's my thinking. What's yours?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-Dece
> mber/082182.html
>
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