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

On Jun 14, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 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.

I think having a release only mailing list / RSS makes sense in general, regardless if -announce policies are changed or not. The question then, is the release list limited to just "postgresql" or is it "postgresql + other major community supported, open-source projects?" I would opt for just Postgres.

Jonathan