Unified internal communications channel

[Nate Graham]

Hello everyone,

There have been a couple instances of drama this week caused by 
decisions being made without some of the relevant stakeholders knowing 
about them. In all cases, the decisions were announced, but either not 
announced in the places where all the stakeholders saw it, or not all 
stakeholders were able to notice the announcement in a place where they 
do generally pay attention.

It makes me think that maybe the KDE development community has grown so 
large that we can't reasonably expect everyone to be paying attention to 
everything, or for everyone with something to announce to know exactly 
where the people who need to know it expect to find those messages.

So perhaps this could be addressed at the source by creating a single 
unified "internal announcements" place that everyone can pay attention 
to without fear of being spammed with too many messages. In theory the 
kde-devel mailing list is one such place, but it's got more than just 
announcements, and also mailing lists aren't very accessible for a lot 
of newer contributors who didn't grow up with them.

What I'm proposing is some kind of place that *only* has internal 
announcements and is very log signal-to-noise such that we can 
fearlessly recommend that *everybody* subscribe to it. In addition, 
ideally those who want to subscribe via mailing list could do so, but 
its content would automatically appear in other places too, such as 
discuss.kde.org and an invent.kde.org project. That way people can 
subscribe by whatever means is most comfortable to them.

Thoughts?

Nate