Re: news ticker Services Policy -- time for a change?

On 06/14/2013 04:36 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> On 06/13/2013 07:14 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> You know, I considered that distinction also... Perhaps we should have
>> different policies for front-page news vs -announce. I was speaking
>> from the -announce part (which is what I had approved, to be clear). At
>> the same time, I was thinking "well, people who care about 'does PG have
>> commerical support options?' aren't likely to be the people subscribed
>> to -announce", so, from that perspective, it seemed to make sense to me.
>
> If anything, the policy for -announce ought to be *more* restrictive
> than for the news ticker. We already have sysadmins who refuse to
> subscribe to -announce because there's too much dreck in it, and as a
> result don't know about security releases.
>
> I hate to abuse a equine corpse, but maybe we should have a
> releases-only feed (mail and rss), and then we can be fairly liberal
> about what we let on the general -announce?

This actually makes sense, having a "security/release" ONLY list/rss.

JD

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