Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
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 _______________________________________________ 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
