On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:08:12 +0100 Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
hi guys,
We are getting ready to put the 6.0/updates into place. The prep work brought up a question that needs addressing.
There are quite a few different tools that seem to scrape the centos-announce output in order to get update metadata; therefore should we announce every update since the 6.0 release date upstream ? we might be looking at around 5 million emails being generated outbound...
if not, what are the other options / ideas ?
Not that I know the particulars on how these things are generated, but perhaps output to a text file and then 1 email that would point to a link containing that file? Or an xml file, or whatever format would suit the occasion. Then even if each one has to be done individually, the output could be appended >> to a specific location, hopefully?
Or, if even that would generate too many lines for one linked file, could it be parsed alphabetically or something and split into a few smaller files, with appropriate links on centos.org or the wiki or something.