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?
Cheers,
Dan