[debbugs-tracker] bug#20389: closed (A way to communicate announcements to developers)

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> A way to communicate announcements to developers
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> Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:56:23 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs
> Severity: wishlist
> Version: 24.5
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> (Bug report to remind about
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00851.html)
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> Please create a mechanism to communicate important announcements
> (feature freezes, etc) to emacs developers.
> No-one should have to read (all of) emacs-devel, it's too noisy.
> And the info-gnu-emacs list is not appropriate for this IMO.
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> FWIW, here's what I would do. It'd only take a few mins to set up:
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> 1. Go to https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/emacs-devel/topics
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> 2. Enable topic filter.
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> 3. Add topic name "emacs-announce"; regexp "emacs-announce"; description
> "announcements all Emacs developers should read".
> (Using just "announce" may lead to false positives?)
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> 4. Document that developers should subscribe to emacs-devel and at
> least subscribe to the "emacs-announce" topic. Whether or not they also
> choose to "receive messages that do not match any topic filter" is up
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> 5. Use "Keywords: emacs-announce" in the header of relevant mails.
> Better (?) to use keywords: than the subject: header, to avoid all the
> replies to said subject being sent out as announcements too. If you
> forget to add it to a message, you or anyone else can just resend it.
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> Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:37:19 +0300
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> > From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:22:33 +0200
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> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> > > Doesn't enabling the topic filter mean that every subscriber must
> > > update their subscription, to choose the topics to which they want to
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> > "If you do not select any topics of interest, you will get all the
> > messages sent to the mailing list."
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> Thanks.
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> I did what Glenn suggested for the mailing list changes.  One concern:
> my reading of the "Topics" page is that the topic matcher scans the
> _body_ of the message, so the suggestion to use "Keywords:
> emacs-announce" in the _headers_ of the mail will probably not work.
> Or maybe I misunderstood what Glenn meant by that.
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> I did nothing about item 4 in Glenn's message.
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