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

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Sep 20 16:18:06 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2016-09-20 10:19:04 +0200:
> Steve Martinelli wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I agree that the current "style" of announcing actively trains
> people to ignore announces. The trick is that it's non-trivial to
> regroup announces (as they are automatically sent as a post-job for each
> tag).
> 
> Solutions include:
> 
> * A daily job that catches releases of the day and batches them into a
> single announce (issue being you don't get notified as soon as the
> release is available, and the announce email ends up being extremely long)
> 
> * A specific -release ML where all announces are posted, with a daily
> job to generate an email (one to -announce for services, one to -dev for
> libraries) that links to them, without expanding (issue being you don't
> have the natural thread in -dev to react to a broken oslo release)
> 
> * Somehow generate the email from the openstack/release request rather
> than from the tags

One email, with less detail, generated when a file merges into
openstack/release is my preference because it's easier to implement.

Alternately we could move all of the announcements we have now to
a new -release list and folks that only want one email a day can
subscribe using digest delivery. Of course they could do that with
the list we have now, too.

Doug



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