[CentOS-devel] Updates push / announcements automation

Wed May 6 19:12:24 UTC 2009
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> As a part of the restructuring of the buildsystems and the updates 
> processing process, we are at a time where there is the option of also 
> redoing the way announcements are done.
>
> I've already factored in RSS feeds per repo, but is there anything else 
> that could / should / would make sense in the actual emails that get 
> sent out ? I know changelog has been something that people have 
> mentioned in the past, is that still something that might be 
> good-to-have / must-have in the announcement emails ?
>   
+1 for good  to have. or at least an URL rather then just the ID of 
upstream's bug


> Also, for CentOS-4, only security updates are normally announced. What 
> do people feel about changing that so that all updates are announced, 
> including SA / BA / EA and CentOS specific bugfix's ?
>   
+1 for including all

> Finally, and this is the big question that *will* impact a lot of people 
> and specially those with automation - what do people think about 
> combined update announcements for all Arch's in a single email like what 
> happens upstream ? C2.1/C3/C4 will be hard to get into this process 
> since the arch specific builders dont stay in sync, but for C5, with the 
> ia64/ppc and s390 now pretty much online with the i386 and x86_64 its 
> something that we *could* potentially target.
>   

+1 for single mail for all arch, when possible. At least for me there is 
no benefit in separate mails.

    Manuel