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

[PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:55:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> 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
>
> I don't think this is an appropriate recommendation.  If someone thinks a
> given bit of news is relevant to non-developers, it's fine for it to be
> repeated on debian-news or debian-announce; but debian-devel-announce is the
> single list that all developers are required to subscribe to, so if it's
> information that is relevant to developers *as well*, it should still go to
> that list.

Hi, I'm new here so ignore me if this doesn't make any sense, but
could debian-devel-announce itself be subscribed to debian-announce?
A couple of large software companies I've worked for had internal
mailing lists set up like that, with some groups being supersets of
others.

--PJ