On 11/5/19 4:06 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 05/11/2019 20:41, Kevin Stange wrote: >> On 11/5/19 12:17 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: >>> On 05/11/2019 18:38, Kevin Stange wrote: >>>> On 11/1/19 2:06 PM, Brian Stinson wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, at 13:41, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote: >>>>>> Do package updates for C8 get announced via centos-announce list? >>>>> >>>>> We are not doing announcement emails for C8 updates at this time. There are feeds at https://feeds.centos.org/ if you would like to subscribe there. >>>> >>>> Can you provide some details as to how this is managed and generated? >>>> Is there an entry limit, or how long will package updates appear in >>>> these feeds? Is it possible to continue to provide a link to the >>>> upstream errata notification or at least provide a matching ID number? >>>> >>>> The way this looks right now this will actually be more difficult to >>>> work with than just scraping the mailing list has been for CentOS 6 and >>>> 7. It's nice seeing the RPM %changelog in the description, but >>>> everything else is worse from my perspective. >>>> >>> >>> No secret sauce for the rss feeds , just repo-rss from yum-utils that is >>> ran against repositories :) >>> So a little bit of jinja2 in the ansible role and it's done : >>> https://github.com/CentOS/ansible-role-httpd-feeds/blob/master/templates/rss-generator.j2#L10 >>> >>> We can easily bump the number of entries that repo-rss would generate if >>> that helps ? >> >> I'm not sure it really helps unless there is no limit because in some >> cases a single SRPM will produce more than 20 distinct packages and then >> you won't even get the full update history if you're polling constantly. >> CentOS often releases several updates at once, and it's not uncommon to >> see 50+ distinct RPMs released within a few hours. >> >> I don't understand the goal of this replacing the mailing list posts >> with this. It means we no longer have any persistent notification or >> metadata for updates unless we watch the actual repos or build systems >> directly. This feels like a huge regression from what we have been >> getting for CentOS 7 and older. >> > > Nobody ever said it was a replacement ;-) > https://feeds.centos.org is there for quite some time, so even before 8 > was even just a concept :) > I think that Johnny said he can't at this stage find a way to send > relevant informations through mails .. but if someone can come with a > solution, I'm sure he'll be happy to consider and plumb such solution in > his release plan. > I've helped figure out some of the plumbing before! Glad to hear this isn't a policy change, but I wish it was better communicated that help was needed in finding a solution to continue what was status quo. I'll talk to Johnny about the process and see what can be done. Thanks. -- Kevin Stange Chief Technology Officer Steadfast | Managed Infrastructure, Datacenter and Cloud Services 800 S Wells, Suite 190 | Chicago, IL 60607 312.602.2689 X203 | Fax: 312.602.2688 kevin at steadfast.net | www.steadfast.net