Am I the only one who missed the election?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:28:22 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:

> >> > > I think this is not good - every contributor should be subscribed
> >> > > to
> >> > > announce list (with cla_done).
> >> >
> >> > So you're blaming people who didn't recieve the email they expected
> >> > on
> >> > devel-announce@ for not recieving it?  Seems pretty off.
> >>
> >> No, definitely not - I missed forgot one important word - automatically
> >> subscribed when members of CLA group.
> >>
> >> Sorry for confusion.
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers#Join_the_important_Mailing_Lists
> >
> 
> It's probably sensible to be subscribed to announce if you're a
> contributor, but not all contributors are package maintainers, so this
> isn't quite sufficient.

Did anyone claim that? - No.

Years ago I've suggested creating a list where to address all contributors.
One list that would be mandatory to subscribe to.
Not multiple lists.

Examining the list archives of devel-announce (which packagers MUST be
subscribed to) and comparing with announce, the purpose of these lists
does not become clear. For example:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-October/date.html
 -> two announcements about Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

That's a very specific topic for the "Announcements related to the
Fedora Project" list, isn't it?

The same posts have been sent to devel-announce, too. Should they
have been posted *only* to devel-announce perhaps? What is the target
group of "announce" list?

On the contrary, "Smolt retirement" has been sent to announce list only,
but not to devel-announce. Same for "FAS update". It's strange that
subscribing to the mandatory list, devel-announce, is insufficient.
And e.g. Fedora Users, who subscribed to "announce" would receive
announcements related to packaging guidelines.

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