Re: Is fvwm-announce still used?

[Thomas Adam]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 01:02:20AM -0500, Jason Tibbitts wrote:
> Thomas Adam  writes:
> 
> > When I was writing the notes for the release procedure, one of the 
> > questions I
> > meant to mail out here was to ask if the fvwm-announce mailing list is still
> > used and/or has subscribers?
> 
> It still has subscribers (567 currently) though I'm sure a few of those
> will bounce since we haven't had an announcement in a while.
> 
> I generally sent an announcement there when I put a new version in place
> (back when I was in the pipeline for that).

Indeed; the last email to that list was April 2012, when you announced the
2.6.5 release.

My recommendation:  shut the list down, Jason.  It hasn't been a part of the
release process now for a long time, and people still seem to be spotting new
releases when they happen.

Kindly,
Thomas Adam

Re: Is fvwm-announce still used?

[Jason Tibbitts]

Thomas Adam  writes:

> When I was writing the notes for the release procedure, one of the questions I
> meant to mail out here was to ask if the fvwm-announce mailing list is still
> used and/or has subscribers?

It still has subscribers (567 currently) though I'm sure a few of those
will bounce since we haven't had an announcement in a while.

I generally sent an announcement there when I put a new version in place
(back when I was in the pipeline for that).

 - J<

Is fvwm-announce still used?

[Thomas Adam]

Hi,

When I was writing the notes for the release procedure, one of the questions I
meant to mail out here was to ask if the fvwm-announce mailing list is still
used and/or has subscribers?

I haven't posted to that list for the times I've done fvwm releases, so I'm
assuming it's prettu much redundant now?   Indeed, a lot of distributions have
automatic means to know when a new release happens, and I suspect that's true
of users as well.  Github tracking makes this easier.

But I thought I'd check.  If it's not used, I'll ask Jason to shut it down.

-- Thomas Adam