Bug#592317: developers-reference: Document the communication channels and what's expected from DD in terms of communication/marketing

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:55:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Package: developers-reference
> Version: 3.4.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> In the publicity Bof at debconf, we agreed that we need to better
> communicate to DD the various communication channels that are available
> and the way that they are expected to use them.
> 
> Among important things:
> - we want to make sure that people use d-d-a only for stuff relevant to
>   developers only, other announces or press-releases ought to be sent to
>   debian-news or debian-announce via the press team

d-d-a should be for stuff relevant to developers. It does not seems reasonable to
block something because it can be relevant to non-developers, especially since almost
everything posted to d-d-a is relevant to some non-developers.

> - we want developers to use wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews if they have
>   stuff that's not worth a single mail to d-d-a

Do we really want that ? debian-devel seems a better choice since it allows people to reply
more easily that wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews. DeveloperNews can then add a link to the
thread.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.