Separate announce list? (Was: ANNOUNCE: xfce4-mount-plugin 0.6.4 released)

[Ray Andrews]

On 14/05/12 08:59 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 14.05.2012, 08:42 -0700 schrieb Ray Andrews:
>
>> Would it be a good idea to have a separate mailing list for releases?
>> I'm glad to see the rate of progress, but these notifications do fill up
>> the inbox.
> So far we had 196 mails in may. 7 of them were announcements.
>
>> Since these things are not normally the sort of thing you
>> would respond to,
> In April and May 77 announcements have caused 45 replies, so obviously
> people do respond to announcements.
77 sounds more believable than 7. But note also that some of the replies 
were not strictly about the release itself.
>
>> I'd think that perhaps there could simply be a web
>> page that shows the latest releases and that's that.
> As a packager, I'd like to have something that get's pushed to my inbox
> rather than having to check a website manually.
>
> This being said an xfce-announce mailing list could make sense, but a
> website not really.
OK then, it's a bad idea, really it's whatever works best for the 
developers. As someone said, I can always filter.