[Leaf-devel] leaf-announce ML

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

Subject was: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: [leaf-user] Bering: PPTP server
updated (pptpd.lrp)

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:08, Dan Harkless wrote:
> 
> Mike Noyes <mh...@us...> writes:
> > > > Everyone,
> > > > Announcements should be posted on our leaf-announce list, and/or posted
> > >                                                             ^^^^^^
> > > > on our phpWebSite. Please don't cross post announcements to leaf-user.
> > > 
> > > Um, that "and/or" worries me a bit.  I hope important things like security
> > > advisories, bugfix updates, and the like are always posted to
> > > leaf-announce.  Not "_or_ posted on our phpWebSite".
> > 
> > Dan,
> > I didn't say anything about posting "security advisories" on our
> > phpWebSite. I said "announcements" are "and/or".
> 
> Right.  And security advisories are a subcategory of "announcements", are
> they not?  That's "announcements" as in "leaf-announce".

Dan,
Security advisories are not a subset of announcements. They are
permitted on leaf-announce because we don't have a security list. Larger
projects usually have separate lists for security advisories and
announcements. Example:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe
debian-announce
debian-security-announce

> I suspect what you had in mind when you said "and/or" was that important
> stuff, including, but not limited to, security advisories, should go to
> leaf-announce, and less important stuff, like announcements of interesting
> potential LEAF hardware platforms, should be website posts.

That is not what I had in mind. The person making the announcement needs
to decide the target audience. Our mailing lists reach a different set
of users than our web site.

Note: our web site provides an RDF news feed, and it's syndicated.
http://syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=7207

> That just wasn't clear from your statement,

I hope this message clarifies matters.

> and I was hoping people wouldn't
> get the wrong idea, since we're trying to correct the underuse of
> leaf-announce for its intended purpose.

I understand your desire to have a functional announce list. I created
it in the hope it would be useful. It hasn't to date, but not for lack
of trying on my part. I was redirecting posts from our other lists to
leaf-announce, and rewriting web site announcements for a while.

Thanks for your feedback. 

BTW, regarding bugs:
Bugs are reported on leaf-user or in our SF project bug tracker. Then
corrected in cvs, and noted in a changlog of each release. You can
monitor all steps of this process if you want to.

-- 
Mike Noyes <mh...@us...>
http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
http://leaf-project.org/