Re: New master.gnome.org

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:40:36AM +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> 
> > I can describe what the script does somewhere. Only 'install' is
> > interesting for maintainers. The rest is release-team stuff and more
> > sysadmin related (ftpadmin validate-tarballs will validate all tarballs
> > within a module.. going to rename that to validate-module).
> 
> [ can't find the mail describing the new features. Replying
>   here instead. Sorry ]

See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2011-March/msg00012.html

> >- Announcement mails are a bit nicer
> >If you have a <description> in your DOAP, it is used. Falls back to
> >shortdesc. It'll also use the name (so in the mail it'll use 'GNOME
> >Shell instead of 'gnome-shell')
> 
> Does this mean we should no longer send announcement mails to the
> announce list, that they will be done automatically?

No, it is only sent to ftp-release-list with a bcc to all maintainers.
Perhaps that email is good enough for gnome-announce-list, not sure. At
least you'll have a copy to use.

There is a bug about sending announcements:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645769

but if ftp-release-list and gnome-announce-list both get the same
emails, then IMO, we should kill one of those lists.

-- 
Regards,
Olav