Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:09 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 09:15:38PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
>> > So ... maybe we could have a mailing list for this?
>> >
>> > Maybe "awesome-announce" or "the-new-shinyness"
(I'm kidding! I'm bad
>> > with names!) at
lists.fedoraproject.org, where all Fedora contributors
>> > could post the fancy new thing that they just made? Because we
>> > definitely don't have a good place for announcements like that right
>> > now (the community blog might be the right place for some of those,
>> > but it is a higher barrier to actually write a blog post that gets
>> > edited etc. instead of writing an e-mail to a mailing list).
>>
>> Hmmm.
>>
>> The Community Blog should have a pretty low barrier to entry. Are
>> people feeling blocked by that? We should try to adjust if so.
>>
>> As it is, the bar is basically "is this appropriate for this site" and
"is
>> the categorization right", with the editorial pass mostly being for
>> egregious problems. In other words, I don't think it's actually much
more
>> heavyweight than a moderated announce mailing list would be.
>>
>> But I also am not sure Community Blog is the right audience — that's
>> intended to be contributor-facing, and this seems like something aimed to e
>> more user-facing.
>
> Those are exactly my thoughts. I don't think there's a way for Fedora
> contributors to "market" the cool new thing they've been working on
to
> *users* (or tech publications)?
>
> I mean, submitting a Change Proposal results in things getting
> announced pretty publicly, but that does not fit for smaller changes,
> or changes that are not specific to the next Fedora release.
>
> I know that some tech news websites follow discussions on the devel
> list (and probably the announcement lists), but those are mostly not
> really of interest to *users*, and there's no mailing list for "here's
> a cool new feature!" that they can subscribe to. That might skew
> newsworthy items more towards the "negative news" side of things, like
> "this package is orphaned / retired" / "Is this maintainer still
> responsive" etc., having more *positive* news to report on would be
> nice for Fedora.
So how about we just create such a list, make it moderated, ensure that
every post gets at least *some* proofreading and see how it works out?
I'm game... but that brings us to the hardest problem in computers:
what do we name it? :)
new-tech? noteable-changes? new-features?
And... who will moderate? Perhaps we could/should file a infra ticket on
the list and have interested parties add their names there?
kevin