On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 9:09 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
