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Re: [Debconf-team] Reducing the bandwidth of -announce?



On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:54:29PM -0700, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> People,

> We've sent 8 (+1) mails to -announce today, I'm wondering if we could 
> maybe reserve our most important announces for that list to keep our 
> attendees focused on what really matters to them?

> Please consider directing your "general informations" to -discuss.

> (Yes, I've been playing that game too, the merchandise information 
> should've gone to -discuss instead).

While the volume has been quite high today, and quite a bit higher than for
previous conferences (half as many messages sent today alone as sent for all
of DC13), I think this is relatively high signal-to-noise.  There are only a
few messages I've seen that IMHO would have been better directed to
debconf-discuss instead of debconf-announce.  In general, I think
debconf-announce is the better place for announcing things like schedule
changes (including new evening events) and events that aren't visible on the
schedule (like drawings, assassins, etc).

Some of these things would certainly be appropriate to put on
debconf-discuss instead, if only they were done with more lead time.  Maybe
we should try to get better about announcing with enough lead time?

-- 
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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