On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 17:20, Steve Fox wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 10:56, ERDI Gergo wrote: > > I see your point, but that's not really what I meant. > > Sorry for the misunderstanding. > > > I think the problem is that making the applist offer to send an email to > > the list encourages you to do so with little thought. > > I believe it was originally Havoc who requested the feature, and I have > to admit that I think people still find it useful. I added the > announcement template after people started posting change logs. IMHO the > announcements have been fairly good lately assuming the Description > field for the project is filled in properly. The description field is too short, and doesn't seem to keep line breaks. I found it highly annoying when I tried to enter an updated description for Walk500. > Maybe just a little more selective approval for the list would suffice? > I agree with Mike Newman that we probably don't want to begin to > interpret/fix people's emails, but we can always reject them with > comments such as "please include a more detailed description of your > application" or "you forgot to include a URL for the project". Sounds alright. Maybe even better is to put up a checklist as the description for the ML, and point it out when there's something missing. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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