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.
Fabio