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

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Tue Sep 20 22:27:13 UTC 2016


On 16-09-20 05:38 PM, Morgan Fainberg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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> A release list makes a lot of sense. If you also include clear metadata in
> the subject such as including the owning project aka: keystone (for
> keystone auth, keystonemiddleware, keystoneclient), people can do direct
> filtering for what they care about ( as well digest mode).
>
> --/morgan
>
>
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Also you can set the description for the list to state the fact this 
list is meant for releases, so it will curtail complaints from 
subscribers saying we don't like what we are getting.

Thanks,
Anita.
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