On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 12:23:49PM +0100, Dan Čermák wrote: > 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?
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
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