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

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Mon May 14 19:09:02 CEST 2012


Am Montag, den 14.05.2012, 09:55 -0700 schrieb 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. 

7 was May, 77 was April, the month with Xfce 4.10 and it's two
pre-releases.

> But note also that some of the replies 
> were not strictly about the release itself.

One more reason to keep them on this list. ;)

However an announce list with reply-to xfce at xfce.org list would be fine
for me, too.

Kind regards,
Christoph




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